Top Grief Quotes

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store...

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.

It's still ok to dream with a broken heart.

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

You’re innocent until proven guilty, Mandy exclaimed, unable to hide her gleeful smile. She missed the way people used to have normal conversations, used to be more caring for each other than themselv...

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

Sometimes it's your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it's memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I want is...

Why do they lie? she asked herself aloud. They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.

SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

Why did you revive me? Alecto repeated. Well… uh, well…. Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. They say there are five stages of grief, you know… five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, de...

…Do you think there’s somewhere else, some other place to go after this one? Mandy blurted out. You mean when you die, where will you end up? Alecto asked her. …I wouldn’t know… back to whatever void...

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear.

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it i...

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been...

I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from sm...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it tu...

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.