Best grief & missing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.”

“The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.”

Knows Grief Love You Missing Fronts Expectations Window

Author:Paul Eluard

“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)”

“Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific, one thing I miss with each loss is entirely selfish, I miss the way a particular person saw me, understood me. But part of the challenge of being alive is to remain curious in any circumstance and this has helped me with grief. I want to feel all the contours and contradictions of living.”

Challenges Loss Grief Forever Missing Circumstances Selfish Curious Contradiction

Author:Victoria Redel

“Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”

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Author:Michelle Williams

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.”

Ifs Doe Seems Faces Desire Grief Cases Missing Undone Missing Something

Book:Undoing Gender

Source: Undoing Gender

“You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”

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Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”

Simple Grief Missing Bereavement Missing Someone

Book:Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.”

Mother Hurt Loss Grief Missing Sad Hearing Chests Needles Missing Someone

Author:Veronica Roth

“New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”

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Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.”

Thinking Long Hard Mother Felt Grief Missing Rivers Stomach Hook Ache Scraping Dredging

Book:Peace Like a River

Source: Peace Like a River

“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.”

Love Courses Grief Missing Dad My Sister Price Of Love

Author:Kathy Lette

“Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.”

Needs Humans Heart Made Wisdom Eye Spiritual Voice Grief Clear Cutting Missing Divine My Heart Seasons Surrender Tonight Ingredients

Author:Hafez

“Grief is love turned into an eternal missing”

Grief Missing Eternal

Author:Rosamund Lupton

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