Quotessence
Home / Topics / Grief And Loss Quotes

Grief And Loss Quotes

Browse 904 quotes about Grief And Loss.

Related topics

GrievingGrief And MourningHelp With Grief

Grief And Loss Quotes

“Wracking sobs rip from the innermost chamber of my heart, and I give into them, allowing them to fully take over. Pain lances me on all sides, and I bury my head in my knees, giving in to the heartache. I cry for my parents. For my lost life. For the threat that Addison poses, scaring me in ways it shouldn’t. For a boy I can’t have and shouldn’t want. For the never-ending gut-wrenching hollow ache in my chest and the soul-crushing loneliness I feel.”

TragedyGrief And LossYoung Adult RomanceNew Adult RomanceDysfunctional FamiliesAngsty RomanceTeen Drama
Book:Finding Kyler
Create image

“Life changes. Sometimes it is a slow progression, and sometimes it changes drastically in the blink of an eye. It seems to me that life is like being on a raft in the ocean. There are times when we are up on the crest of a wave, loving life, seeing far into the future with hope and happiness. Then other times there seems to be a huge wave crashing right on top of us, and we feel like we are going to drown. And then there are the times we are just floating on our raft in the calm seas, waiting for something to happen. Whatever the case, life changes. You just have to hold on to your raft and ride the waves.”

InspirationalHopeGrief And LossLife Changes
Book:Life Changes: An Inspirational Book About Life, Loss, and Love
Create image

“It’s not a good idea to fall in love, okay?” I say softly. “Not with people, and not with places.” Fen looks surprised by this. “I loved a landscape and watched it burn,” I say. “This island, you can see what it will look like, there’s a film over everything. You can see it disappearing. There’s no stable ground. Not here. Not anywhere else.” “And you’d want to try and survive all of that on your own?” she asks. “What that instability does to relationships—what constant danger does to them—is devastating. It’s unraveling.” I can see she doesn’t believe me but I don’t push the point. She will see, one day. Loving a place is the same as having a child. They are both too much an act of hope, of defiance. And those are a fool’s weapons.”

LoveHopeClimate ChangeGrief And Loss
Book:Wild Dark Shore
Create image

“More than anything I know we need each other. We need community and connection. We need to show up, in real time and in flesh and bone, and love on each other. We need hands on hearts and someone to sleep next to us and hold us on the darkest nights. We need to dismantle the division and heal the wounds. We need to show our children a different way and create for them a different world. I know so much and I know so little. I don't actually know anything at all. And I know sometimes, it still won't be enough. I return again and again to my simple promise, my most important commitment: to stay with myself. To fight for my own return. To whisper, "I am here now. I will not leave you." And to mean it.”

Grief And LossEmotional SupportSuicide AwarenessConnection In DarknessFighting IsolationHealing Through ConnectionHolding Space For GriefMental Health And CommunityNeed For CommunityShared Grief
Author:Jeanette LeBlanc
Create image

“She could always walk somewhere without him. Of course this somewhere had to be somewhere "safe." She could walk to her office. But she didn't want to go to her office. She felt bored, ignored, and alienated in her office. She felt ridiculous there. She didn't belong there anymore. In all the expansive grandeur that was Harvard, there wasn't room there for a cognitive psychology professor with a broken cognitive psyche.”

GriefGrief And LossAlzheimersChronic Disease
Book:Still Alice
Create image

“You grieve for those beyond grief, and you speak words of insight; but learned men do not grieve for the dead or the living. Never have I not existed nor you, nor these kings; and never in the future shall we cease to exist. Just as the embodied self enters childhood, youth, and old age, so does it enter another body; this does not confound a steadfast man. Contacts with matter make us feel heat and cold, pleasure and pain. Arjuna, you must learn to endure fleeting things-they come and go! When these cannot torment a man, when suffering and joy are equal for him and he has courage, he is fit for immortality. Nothing of nonbeing comes to be, nor does being cease to exist; the boundary between these two is seen by men who see reality. Indestructible is this presence that pervades all this; no one can destroy this unchanging reality. ...”

GriefIndiaOld AgeGrief And LossReincarnationImmoralityGrieveA Suitable BoyVikram Seth
Author:Vikram Seth
Create image

“Hours passed in that dark space. It seemed as if time itself had separated from them, as if it’d become some strange, stalking creature Vasily had left behind at the door, a selfish thief he never wanted to find again. If time was a thing of flesh and bone he would’ve killed it right then and there, burned it and the whole world too for just another moment, for just another day to say all these precious unsaid things clogging his chest that he hadn’t the courage to say in the rapidly-fading now. But now was all they had, just the barest whisper of a few stray moments, all so quick to slip through his fingers and fall to the floor. Now was not enough.”

Grief And LossGrief QuotesEpic FantasyLoss QuotesAction AdventureGrimdarkFantasy AdventureGrimdark Fantasy
Book:Prince of Glass: Remastered
Create image

“If grief is the presence of love without a place to go, then being in love is the presence of mutually reciprocated love that is all encompassing and grabs the attention of every atom of your being. It captures all our senses, and everything comes to a screeching halt. The world slows down, and we are in a state of bliss. It hijacks our thoughts and impulses.”

LoveLove QuotesGriefGrief And LossLove And RomanceInloveLove And Life
Book:Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
Create image

“One Day: One day, you will heal One day, you will be grateful for the deepest cuts of pain One day, you will glance at yourself And see a stronger person through your reflection One day, you will kiss away your hurt... gently, and with grace Until then, use it all to propel you forward Like a white-hot pyre through your star-spangled eyes A fire to regenerate every shadowy cell And open your heart to every experience Knowing that one day You will search your heart And understand that love is the only thing to ever hold onto”

PainInspirational QuotesLove QuotesHealingGrief And LossHeart QuotesSoul QuotesPain QuotesEmotional PainInner Wounds
Book:Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom
Create image

“I wish I’d fallen softly. Light and graceful like a feather drifting slowly to the earth on a warm and dreamy summer’s day. I wish that I’d landed softly too. But there is nothing soft or graceful about that devastating moment when the worst has come to pass. The unavoidable truth is that it is hard, cold and brutal. All that you know to be true and good in life shatters in an instant. You feel like a delicate pottery bowl violently tossed from your place of rest, watching yourself crash and scatter across the hostile dark earth. The sound is deafening. Time stops. Inside, the quiet ache of shock and heartbreak slowly makes its grip known. They cut deep, these jagged edges of broken sherds. You gasp for air hungrily, yet somehow forget how to breathe.”

TraumaGrief And LossInfertilityPregnancy LossSubfertilityEctopic
Book:Mending Softly: Finding Hope & Healing After Ectopic Pregnancy Loss
Create image

“The fall is hard – the crashing, the breaking, the scattering of your broken clay body. What I found however, is that the mending is slow, soft and although somewhat ungraceful still, you sense yourself being held by an unseen force, something greater than you wrapping you in its balm. Remember this on those days when it feels like healing will never come.”

HealingGrief And LossMendingInfertilityPregnancy LossSubfertilityEctopic
Book:Mending Softly: Finding Hope & Healing After Ectopic Pregnancy Loss
Create image