Quotes about Grief

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.

Night is beautiful when you are happy—comforting when you are in grief—terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

wounded prisoners. I wish I could hope, Miss Oliver—it would help, I suppose. But hope seems dead in me. I can't hope without some reason for it—and there is no reason. When Miss Oliver had gone to her own room and Rilla was lying on her bed in the moonlight, praying desperately for a little strength, Susan stepped in like a gaunt shadow and sat down beside her. Rilla, dear, do not you worry. Little Jem is not dead. Oh, how can you believe

tasted the bitterness of death

On the evening after Mrs. Myra Murray of the over-harbour section had been buried Miss Cornelia and Mary Vance came up to Ingleside. There were several things concerning which Miss Cornelia wished to unburden her soul.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Grief was a vicious parasite. It had dug and clawed its way into my heart, feeding off the guilt raging through me. But I'd find a way to exterminate it.