494 Quotes About Grieving

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.

The tears so unending that I now wondered if it was some sign of her heart bleeding out.

Women need space to grieve, not husbands.

But hers was a strange heart, sad in its very nature, and she could never weep and ease it as other women do, for her tears never brought her comfort.

For some reason, it never occurred to me that the jaws of death could touch someone next to me. Never once did I think the people whom I cared about could simply cease to exist. Or what would be the consequences of it.

I grieve you as a lover grieves, lingering.

When all you have left of the people you love are things, then the things become really important.

It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting.

A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.