Grief And Loss Quotes Quotes

“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“We all have a story to tell. Stories of how we survived this or that. Some are more dramatic than others but what a great story to tell. This is how I survived that!”
― Chris W Michel, The Red Chair Experience

“Whether or not you consider yourself a caregiver now, at some point, you will be. We will face the death of a parent. We will experience the weight of caregiving, grief, and emotional pressure. That's why Holistic Wealth isn't optional - it's essential.”
― Keisha Blair

“Grief returning doesn’t mean you’re broken.”
― G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Five Years Later

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The connections we share with one another—the ones that mean the most to us—are never truly severed. Not across time, nor distance, nor death, even. The heaviness in your chest, that ache you feel right now, I like to believe that the strength of that emotion extends outward to somewhere far beyond us, touching those we’re missing in some way . . . wherever they are.”
― Alison Huff, The Color of Gravity

“MDMA alone is not a solution for grief
I know I have said this already. But it is so important that I must revisit it, lest someone think that I am wounded in some way and MDMA is going to cure me somehow.”
― G. Scott Graham, MDMA and Grief

“Grief doesn’t end.
That’s the myth I want to let go of once and for all.
It doesn’t finish.
It doesn’t fade neatly.
It doesn’t follow a linear arc with a clean moral at the end.
It changes shape.
It tucks itself into different corners of your life.
It surprises you.
It adapts.”
― G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Five Years Later

“Be prepared for the insincere to scatter like cockroaches… Be prepared for those whom you thought would be there for you to not be there… And be prepared for those whom you hardly know to be there for you with complete dedication.​”
― G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief

“If there’s any offering in these pages, it’s this:
You don’t need to transcend your pain to be worthy of love.
You don’t need to have a clear path to keep walking.
You don’t need to have let go of the past to hold what’s here now.
You get to love again.
You get to grieve still.
You get to be afraid and hopeful and messy and grounded and undone and whole — all at once.
You get to come as you are.
Not once.
Not when you’re “better.”
Not after you’ve figured it all out.
Every day.
Over and over.
With whatever you’re holding.”
― G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Five Years Later

“You’re Still Here
You are not starting over.
You are continuing — with a heart that remembers, a body that knows how to stay, and a soul that has said yes to life again.
Grief didn’t end.
Love didn’t erase it.
But you remained open.
You allowed joy to return, even when it felt risky.
You dared to care again, even knowing what it might cost.
That is your strength.”
― G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Five Years Later

“Get cozy with your sorrow,
Cuddle with your grief.
Float with your fears,
And melt within your anger.
Stroll through your frustrations,
Your disappointments,
And your regrets.
Dive into your doubts,
Your powerlessness,
Your hopelessness.
Surrender.”
― NZ Kaminsky, Sense of Home

“He was her rock,
now he’s dates on a stone
next to trees
on a plot in a spot
far from home”
― Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace

“We grieve to the extent that we loved. We should all be so lucky to experience a love that causes such pain. Deep grief means great love.”
― Ashley Lane, Haunted By Regret

“I have no more fight left, the will to keep going has been extinguished, and I am ready to throw in the towel. Nothing matters anymore, my heart is hollow, and I see no hope for a better tomorrow. Nothing can lighten this heavy burden of despair - it is all too much, and it feels as if there is no end in sight.”
― Jonathan Harnisch

“I would take it, " I say, my voice breaking. "Painful, bad, whatever. I'd take it. Because, Sawyer? I don't remember my last day with Hayley. None of it. -Ella”
― Sloan Harlow, Everything We Never Said

“Grief is not gauzy; it is substantial, oppressive, a thing opaque. The weight is heaviest in the mornings, post-sleep: a leaden heart, a stubborn reality that refuses to budge.

I will never see my father again. Never again. It feels as if I wake up only to sink and sink.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Memories never fade where laughter was shared.”
― Audrey Hogan Dublin Writer

“Sometimes, I look up at the full moon and wonder if I will live to see another one of its crescents,”
― Fatimah A. Bass, Where the Olive Trees Return: by Fatimah A. Bass

“The water’s being slowly heated,” she had said. “The people don’t even realize they’re boiling.”
― Diamonds in Auschwitz, Meg Hamand

“He gives me a look. The kind only someone who's walked through fire can give to someone else standing in the smoke.”
― Lacey Britt, Falling for my Grumpy Neighbor: An Opposites Attract Sweet Romance

“I Can't Believe They're Gone Emotions aren't good or bad, or right or wrong—they just are.”
― Karen Brough, I Can't Believe They're Gone: A kid's grief book that hugs, helps, and gives hope

“You're sad because you've lost someone you loved.”
― Karen Brough, I Can't Believe They're Gone: A kid's grief book that hugs, helps, and gives hope

“Standing on the edge of the English riviera, I watched a sea roared with fury, waves crashing against ancient rocks like unspoken grief trying to shatter a “silent wall”.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“As life has its way, unfortunate events often happen in a row-one after another, shooting forth like a rapid train in front of our eyes. When one's heart is still hurting, still fighting, another strike is already on the way.
No time to feel, no time to notice, no time to heal.”
― NZ Kaminsky, Sense of Home

“Her broken heart was still beating. How come? Buses were running, buzzing, humming. People were smiling.
Birds' chatter and kids' laughter rang in her ears, causing her pain. The streets with fancy boutiques, ready for the winter testival, were nonchalant to her sorrow. And the coffee shops served croissants.

— Sense of Home”
― NZ Kaminsky, Sense of Home

“Her broken heart was still beating. How come? Buses were running, buzzing, humming. People were smiling.
Birds' chatter and kids' laughter rang in her ears, causing her pain. The streets with fancy boutiques, ready for the winter testival, were nonchalant to her sorrow. And the coffee shops served croissants”
― NZ Kaminsky, Sense of Home

“Grieving the death of my parents was already hard enough, but having to grieve someone that was alive was ten times harder.”
― Jahquel J., Capone

“Maybe grief is a way to acknowledge the combined separateness and togetherness of the relationship once shared. Death is a sharp slap that refuses to be ignored The End seems so final.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“I am profoundly sorry for your suffering, Mr. Vaughn. To lose a child is one of the hardest burdens a human being can bare.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River