Quotes about Grief

advancing the cause of Jesus that didn't begin and end with love. I was wrong, totally wrong, and had to come to the place where I grieved the failure to love as the greatest failure a Christian is capable of.

I lost a good friend a few years ago, and it happened quite suddenly. Any event like that leaves you with questions. Would a phone call have made a difference? Did the person know that you were there for them?

My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long.

What does it all mean if I don't have family? If my mother is in the cold, hard ground?

So there I was sitting next to this vision. Esmerelda Belmont. During the closing song, I held her hand and never let go. I'd met perfection. "We married six months later and enjoyed eight years of wedded bliss before she left this world for the great beyond, letting go of my hand for the very first time. "I miss her every day.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

There's death and there's loss, but there's also celebrations, right?

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.