Top Grief Quotes

I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.

To draw me out, the therapist asks what I did for the holidays. When I tell him he says gently (he says everything gently), Sounds like that's one of the ways your loss has affected you: not wanting t...

Grief Definition

(a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

(a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.

(a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and,...

He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger. "Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms. "Why do you fence for yourself so much?She sighed and muttered, "Because all I really want is...

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.

I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that.

... I hadn't been paying attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I notice...

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

Imagine going a long time without seeing someone you love. Then after months or years getting the moment to see them and catch up. I think that's what death is like. Going a long time and missing them...

She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be 'Doctor of Life,' and I will be in good company. S...

I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn bri...

In life, you either choose to be a powerleess victim or one of the choosen ones, who now has the power to understand the pain of others.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.