3,968 Quotes About Grief

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

I got a monster within . . . my own self !

Last Christmas Daphne hadn't been born yet; nor had Fanny. Now here sat Daphne chewing a wad of blue tissue while Franny stirred her fists through Agatha's jigsaw puzzle. They both seemed so accustomed to being here. And Danny and Lucy had completely vanished . Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

The sharpest sword in all of creation is useless, if there’s nothing to swing at but air.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no natural outlet or relief,In word, or sigh, or tear.

I will miss you like I miss everything in these moth wing lives of ours, built inside each other’s dreams, out of things that go away.

Grief, I learned, doesn’t care how hard you attempt to understand her. She doesn’t care if you are already depressed or suffer from suicidal ideation. She doesn’t wait for you to be ready, and the longer you defer her presence, the heavier her weight becomes.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.