3,968 Quotes About Grief

Sometimes when we feel lost, the universe sends a little help. Something or someone to guide us on our path.” She chuckles, her eyes gleaming. “And that can come in the most unexpected form.

When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of comforting words may counter the withering twilight and the frostiness of darkness. ("All the words he always wanted to tell her.")

I don't know about angels,but humans need unanswered questions so that they have a reason to look.

When I complain about the bandages she says: 'I promise you that when you take them off you'll be just as you were before.' And it is true. When she takes them off there is not one line, not one wrinkle, not one crease.And five weeks afterwards there I am, with not one line, not one wrinkle, not one crease.And there he is, lying with a ticket tied around his wrist because he died in a hospital. And there I am looking down at him, without one line, without one wrinkle, without one crease...

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

Like young fern shootsmy child's fingers curled.I did not expect,in the fifth month, frost.

Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death--even when we've done everything possible to prevent it? Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists observe; no doubt that's one reason why people still tell the story of Adam and Eve, which interprets suffering that way.