Grief And Death Quotes
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I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever.
— Molli Fields
Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.
— Sharon Salzberg
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
— Jim Bishop
[They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
— Diane Setterfield
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
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
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
— Don Marquis
He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.
— Charles Bracelen Flood
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
While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one's bowels.
Painful change just takes time. — Jessica Watts
Painful change just takes time. — Jessica Watts
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
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
Time doesn't heal all wounds. We both know that's bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.
— Adam Silvera
Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.
— C.J. Redwine
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
Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both — Galadrielle Allman
If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?
— Noorilhuda
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
— Pearl S. Buck
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
— Rumi
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
— Ethel M. Dell
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
How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?
— Gwenn Wright
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
It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.
— Brent Jones
The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74
— Robin Romm
He wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.
— Sharon Sala
Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.
— Noorilhuda
Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?
Isn't there a difference between things and human beings? — Honeya
Isn't there a difference between things and human beings? — Honeya
There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief - and even death.
— Priscille Sibley
As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love.
— Amy Eldon
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
Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart. — Simon Armitage
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart. — Simon Armitage
Nurse your grief, don't spill a drop of it, because it'll help you to reach your zenith, some day.
— Lara Biyuts
The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.
— Aliki
Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.
— Lawren Leo
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.
— Victoria Hanley
To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.
— Kelly Braffet
Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will.
— Oumar Dieng
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
— Meghan O'Rourke
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
Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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'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
Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
— Kathryn Orzech
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
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it. — Nathalie Himmelrich
Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.
— Julian Barnes
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
There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
— Pablo Neruda
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
— Edgar Morin
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?
— Philip K. Dick
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
— Walter Mosley
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
I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
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
It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished. - 140
— Robin Romm
I wish he had let you all die
— Madeline Miller
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
All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.
— Ariel Levy
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
This is the duality of loss. — 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
Even in death, her mother was winning.
— Noorilhuda
So you see, the grief doesn't get smaller - life just gets bigger
— Lucie Brownlee
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
Death and parting are the same.
— Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf
Death leaves trails of mutes.
— David Kushner
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
marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.
— Khaled Hosseini