494 Quotes About Grieving

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

you don't lose a personlike a set of keys because you don't find them againand you can still get to where you're going.

Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it.

Your mother buried me a long time ago and believed me when I say that I cried and still cry for this death every day.

If love is the only thing we can take with us when we die, what's left for the people who stay?

The tears spill as I pull out of the intersection. I leave him to it, his own personal grieving process. He doesn't need me telling him everything will be okay when we both know it won't. Instead I give his hand a firm squeeze. My role is clear to me now. I will be the strong one. I'll be good at this. I am aware of my limitations. I'm not warm, I'm not especially kind. But I can be strong. I can allow Tom to slip away knowing I will be all right. This, I can give him.

...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear.

Death is harder on those who are left behind.

Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything looked normal, but the sound was muted. Death did this, set all this weirdness in motion, made people appear out of nowhere carrying casseroles, saying 'I'm sorry' over and over, death muffled their voices.