3,968 Quotes About Grief

If grief had a permanence, then didn't also love?

i have difficulty separatingabusive relationshipsfrom healthy onesi can’t tell the differencebetween love and violence- it all looks the same

I climbed aboard a Greyhound bus and rode it to New York without telling anyone, without so much as a goodbye. What was I thinking? I wasn’t. I was young and stupid and broken. I knew from watching movies that broken people hopped on buses and disappeared. New York seemed far away, geographically, mentally.

Imagine that your tears can talk. What would they say? Listen to them. They are trying to tell you something important.

Outside, I clicked the padlock back in place, sealing the butterflies within. It seemed remarkable that they'd survived in there for so long in such fruitless and insubstantial conditions. But as I walked back up the drive to the front of the house, I thought about Jake and me, and I realized that was just what happens. The butterflies didn't have a choice, after all. That's what things do. Even in the toughest of circumstances, they keep living.

Grief is nothing but the far brink of love. Love is the sun; grief is the shadow it casts. Love is an opera; grief is its echo. You cannot have one without the other. But if you follow that grief, you will find your way back to love.

Time is the great healer, and so on.

You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.

remind ourselves that grief may feel longerand more poignant than happinessbut it still has an ending.