3,968 Quotes About Grief

He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories. He would banish that bitch from his heart if it meant cutting her out with his own dagger. And when at last he allowed himself to grieve, he did so silently and unwillingly, his tears hidden by the darkness, his rage congealing into a core of ice.

Grievers often bear the disproportionate burden of needing to “teach” others how to support them in grief... and not everybody is a willing or capable “student.

Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way.

Families that feel together, heal together.

Loss isn’t a textbook process. It’s different for everyone. Yeah, we want advice and steps—anything to shorten the pain. But grief can’t be hurried or pummelled with self-help. It’s just there. The only way out of it is through it.

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

If only he loved himself as much as he loved the rest of the world.

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

The more you want to dig a hole and burry yourself in it, the more you need to run and be ALIVE and do things. The more you want to do nothing, the more you need to do something. The more you want to be selfish, just think about yourself and your own pain, the more you need to look outward and try to cheer other people up. Then you will find happiness for yourself, when you give yourself away in any way you can.