3,968 Quotes About Grief

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy.

These lilies are a sacrifice, a savagery, another death needed to remember that which is no more.

Every moment is a gift, but when the moment passes, the gift is not gone. The real gift is the life and spirit within another. That life is everywhere around us. It gets concentrated in a certain place and we call that a ‘loved one’. But if the ‘loved one’ has to journey somewhere, we haven’t lost the gift of love or life. It swirls around and shows itself to us in a million ways.

He who grieved goes out in joy.

Whether my death changes everything is not important," the man said, almost in a whisper, "but whether you allow my death to change you I'd another matter entirely.

Whether my death changes anything is not important," the man said, almost in a whisper, "but whether you allow my death to change you is another matter entirely.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.