3,968 Quotes About Grief

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

By and by, an umber horizon begins to glow, displacing the moonlight. I close my eyes facing it. I see your crashing instruments, your secular declarations, every shameful nadir somehow lower than the one before. All of the lostness and madness braided together, a cord inexorably straining towards the night you silenced the whole world.

Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.

Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

Obviously, living beings are prejudiced against death. They can't take death of someone as easily as birth of someone.