3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.