3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief is wild like the sea, but it doesn’t need to destroy us. We can’t conquer it, but we can navigate it, and we can find Jesus there too.

There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure.

But I don’t WANT it to get easier! I don’t want to get over him!

Don’t pretend you’re OK, when it feels as if your heart has been ripped from your body but you’re not lucky enough to die along with it.

Sometimes the busier we allow ourselves to be, the more anxious and upset we are when alone again.

I’ll stick around for seven months,’ I tell him, ‘but after that I’m not making any promises.

Do not underestimate the immense power of love and its unexplainable mysteries.

It’s a big world out there. I’d forgotten how big it is.

I’m scared shitless I’m gonna wake up twenty years from now and still not have finished writing a book.’He looks me in the eye. ‘You’re probably right about that – as long as you know that it’ll have been your choice.