3,968 Quotes About Grief

...it's just one miss, butyou're gonna have a whole lotta makesin this life, 'cause you're justthat good, and it's okayto be downand upsetas long asyou're not downand out

I’ve been real lost without her. Like, she was this compass I didn’t even know I had.

We are out sisters' keepers.

And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.

The absence of things is so loud it pierces my brain with loss. What used to be, is simply no more.But the memories linger like smoke in the air.

The universe has her hands busy in my mind, knitting words together to blanket your wailing heart with something intricately designed.

WebMD calls it a stage of grief - anger. But I doubt I'll ever get to the other stages. This one slices me into millions of pieces. Every time I'm whole and back to normal, something happens to tear me apart, and I'm forced to start all over again.The rain lets up. The devil stops beating his wife, but I beat the dashboard, punching it over and over, numb to the pain of it. I wanna be numb to the pain of all this.

Though he plunged into work as another man might have plunged into dissipation, to drown the thought of her, you could see that he had no longer any interest in it; he no longer loved it. He attacked it with a fury that had more hate in it than love.

We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows souls back to the land of the living too. Perhaps I have merely gone to rest awhile…