Top Grief Quotes

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

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.

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)

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

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

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...

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

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.

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...

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

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature, Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Chery...

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

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

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...

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fum...

What broke your heart so badThat you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soulAnd can't utter the word 'love' anymore?

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...