Death Loss Grief Quotes

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you. — Herculine Barbin

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. — Robin McKinley

If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry. — Brent Jones

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was. — Sharon Salzberg

A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. — V.C. Andrews

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. — Richard Adams

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained. — R.W. Patterson

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. — Roland Barthes

Dead.
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths. — Melanie Cusick-Jones

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

The problem with love is this: It dies. And when it does, you die with it. — Apollo Blake

I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by. — Patricia Briggs

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore. — Hannah Moskowitz

My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead. — Cheryl R Cowtan

I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying is done, you see how the end is the beginning. — Elizabeth Berg

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever.
Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away. — Kwame Alexander

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born. — Stephen Jenkinson

She was gone but it seemed she was still always there, right at the center. — Georgia Blain

Do what you love and own who you are.
Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both — Galadrielle Allman

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. — Renae Jones

Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within. — Eleesha

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

There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore. — Dianna Hardy

I miss you with the very edge of my skin.
It winces in absence,
a giant muscle contracting. — Valentina Cano

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but ... he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad. — Anne Ursu

...the only thing really worth doing in this life is giving love to everyone around you. — Claire Bidwell Smith

One must learn to live with the living before one can learn to live with the dead. — Irvin D. Yalom

We do not have control
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it. — Nathalie Himmelrich

Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died. — Kathryn Orzech

Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light. — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back? — Jim Sheeler

When he left us, he stole all the words. — Alex George

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

I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know? — Brent Jones

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper. — Augusten Burroughs

marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. — Khaled Hosseini

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free. — Tan Redding

Killing me will not end your grief. It will only create more of it. — Elizabeth Carlton

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Death leaves trails of mutes. — David Kushner

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just ... survive. Outlive me, please. — Tracy Letts

Death and parting are the same. — Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to grieve forever. — Christina Rasmussen

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief. — Barbara Kingsolver

When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss. — Christina Rasmussen

All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone. — Ariel Levy

I wish he had let you all die — Madeline Miller

Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests. — Erin Hunter

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. — Rebecca McNutt

Here's what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind. — Katherine Owen

So you see, the grief doesn't get smaller - life just gets bigger — Lucie Brownlee

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable? — Gwenn Wright

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb. — Annabel Pitcher

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. — Robin Hobb

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves. — Rebecca McNutt

Sorry doesn't make anything better. It's just a word to fill the space of a loss of words. — Shari J. Ryan

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon. — Mary Karr

Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward. — Brent Jones

Grief does not have an expiration date. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

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

He hadn't saved her. He hadn't even bothered trying. — Tan Redding

My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. — Cheryl Strayed

Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will. — Oumar Dieng

Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead. — Lawren Leo

I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye. — Claire Bidwell Smith

Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss. — Meg Donohue

His absence is so big it's like he's there. — Patrick Ness

Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?
Isn't there a difference between things and human beings? — Honeya

It's like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy. — Brent Jones

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

He wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been. — Sharon Sala

It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little. — Brent Jones