Grieving Quotes

It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to pu...

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobe...

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as...

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, t...

When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, espe...

from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...

A funeral is no place for secrets.

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we...

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company i...

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief i...

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to...

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doom...

If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comf...

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one...

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round an...

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.