3,968 Quotes About Grief

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me

But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.

There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

On her own, Grace could be effervescent, illuminating the entire room with her intelligence and wit. Around others she seemed to lose her luster.

Not everyone deserves to hear your grief. Not everyone is capable of hearing it. Just because someone is thoughtful enough to ask doesn't mean you are obliged to answer.

The worst thing about a war or a pandemic or a massacre is people don't die with dignity, the one thing for which they were preparing from all of their lives.

When I reflect, my dear cousin,' said she, 'on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me. Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice, that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote, and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.

Leaving the memories behind, I am nobody. Carrying them with me, I am somebody. In honor of the forgotten past, I pen the verses of my heart. I arise with the sound of my soul. I arise to write my history on every page. I arise to pay off my debt. I arise to open my arms to this breaking dawn.

She laughed a bit at the simple beauty of it all - the white paper, the elegant arc, the soft green grass; and, beside her, the purple backpack, Grandad's golden straw hat, the sky a pale-blue umbrella embracing the whole town