494 Quotes About Grieving

I didn't want to think about you dead.""That's the thing, my love. Even if you don't think of the dead, the dead are thinking of you.

I began to call friends and relatives. Some called me. They'd heard the news on the radio. Others just came by. I greeted each one in the foyer. Few words were spoken. Mostly, we embraced. People often say they don't know what to say to someone like me at a time like this. Nothing need be said. The presence of those you care about is comfort enough; a warm embrace communicates far more than words do.

Fury and Fire cannot Still a Loving Heart ` 'Stilled Heart- - Life's Seasons

Every lament is a prayer; a statement of faith

I’ll have to build a widow’s walk,” she said, and then she looked at Aggie and smiled so Aggie knew that she could smile, too, that the rest of their lives wouldn’t be all sadness and loss.

The morning after their deaths, Armand had gone into their room. The scent of them, the sense of them, almost too much to bear. The clothing. The book. The bookmark. The bedside clock, still ticking. He'd thought that strange. Surely it should have stopped.

I'm gonna tell you some stories, and some of them might be true."Jack Bates

Love consumes me like the burning flame of a candle,I grieve in your Longing, my desire too agonizing to be handledYour separation inflamed my wound, Love,Deserted my Heart and left it in shambles.-- Irtika Kazi, Till Distance do us part

Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.