3,968 Quotes About Grief

And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable.

Oh! it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach, but let no man reject it, for it is one that all must learn, and is a mighty, universal Truth. When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

SUICIDE...Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die.― John Zea

On War – At the end, here is the only real statement either side can use: It seemed like a good idea at the time.

She points the phone back to her own face. 'So can we be finished now, yes? Or should we keep on killing people?'Javier unleashes a noise that's half sob and half laughter. He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.

Holmes speaks of grief “staining backward” through the pages of life; but Valancy found her happiness had stained backward likewise and flooded with rose-colour her whole previous drab existence. She found it hard to believe that she had ever been lonely and unhappy and afraid.

No one can stay in a brutal, bloodstained place.

SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.

Great memories really can help overwhelm grief.