3,968 Quotes About Grief

... but that was comfort lent in catastrophe. Now, in the absence of tragedy, we couldn't seem to find each other.

Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.

More than nakedness,for there is no cover to take.The fire in your eyesis ringed with water; wide and cool.We are far from the brutal place,but you do not think so.You take my hand and disappear like you were never there, except that I am now somewhere else.

I'm sorry I wasn't a better friend while you were alive. Your passing ended your life on earth, but it also ended my ability to live. For ten years I didn't know if I was all right; I had gone through the motions of living. Now I have been given a second chance because of you.

But even though I didn’t think he liked me very much, at least he hadn’t called me any names or told me I smelled like death.So that was an improvement.

Does it stop hurting because I have to start forgetting about them?” he asked, his lip quivering. “Because I don’t want to forget them.

I'm not here to sugar-coat grief. I'm here to be transformed by it.

Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

Work is the antidote to misery.