Quotes about Grief

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Indeed, when Luther's school-yard chum Hans Reinecke wrote to him of his father's death, Luther wrote, "Seldom if ever have I despised death as much as I do now." He said that it "has plunged me into deep sadness not only because he was my father but also because he loved me very much." Even more, he says, "through him my creator has given me all that I am and have.

She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.

I pray for those we have lost but more personally for those who have lost - the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so many before you. I know how it feels to get that call that someone you love isn't coming home.

Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."

Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.

we lost our son, Anne, as did many others, but we have our memories of him and souls cannot die. We can still walk with Walter in the spring.

And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could.

He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.