494 Quotes About Grieving

There's nothing to do. You've been in the business long enough to understand grief. That's the awful thing: there is nothing to do but go on. You don't want to, you don't want to leave the loved one behind, but you do. Death's taught you that much at least.

Permission is the key that unlocks the door that’s been holding us trapped, muzzled, and stifled in our grief. Permission is the opposite of rejection. Permission is the opposite of abandonment. Permission lifts the weight, eases the pressure, and loosens the reins.

Well,” she said. “I was happy for fiffty-five years. That’s more thanmost people get. Now there’s the clan to look after, like Raphael would’vewanted. The night we knew he was gone, and every night since, I watchmy vampires in the home he guarded. I watch the mundanes in thestreets he loved. Every one of them looks like a child I should help, apossibility for a future I wasn’t able to imagine. Every one of them seemsprecious, worth defending, worth the world. Every one of them isRaphael.

Certainly she could never have exchanged pleasantries with anyone. What would there be for them to say anyway? Sorry? Sorry your daughter is dead, Sorry your daughter jumped off the roof of her school when you were on your way to pick her up. Sorry you were late. Too bad you'll be reliving that failure for the rest of your miserable life.

this loss feels like an ache between my ribs it’s sad and scary but softand steady it’s always there humming loudlybeneath it all beneath it allsometimesit rests andjust whispersssshhhhhhhhit only takes one moment of missing you to make it roar

Loss is part of our story, it isn’t the story.

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.

With permission to grieve, we stop yelling at ourselves to be stronger or different or better in our pain and shift to witnessing ourselves instead.

For what is grief but love in disguise?