Quotes About Grief And Loneliness

#1. She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

Frederick Buechner

#3. It's all right", he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. "It's all right, believe me.

Robert Bloch

#4. But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

Dean Koontz

#5. Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

Erin Morgenstern

#6. Because how could he have done this?
How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?

Jandy Nelson

#7. Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

Geneen Roth

#8. He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger.
"Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms. "Why do you fence for yourself so much?
She sighed and muttered, "Because all I really want is nothing but to be proved wrong.

Sanhita Baruah

#9. Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.

Pamela Clare

#10. It ... whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I ... I don't even know if I want to be saved.

Kellie Elmore

#11. The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#12. I can't recall the sound of your voice
Still, I bring flowers and meet the sky
ask it to hold me, too.

Drew Myron

#13. There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.

Billy Graham

#14. The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

Hannah Harrington

#15. Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies - loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt - every time they come around.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.

Linda Hawley

#17. My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over me with painful sharpness and deep grief. Now that I had company.

Linda Olsson

#18. ( ... ) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all.

Thomas Mann

#19. When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.

Jandy Nelson

#20. It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

Debbie Ford

#21. He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she'd fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery.

Katherine McIntyre

#22. We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.

Corey Ann Haydu

#23. Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

Johnny Rich

#24. There's grief and then there's the loneliness of grief. The way it's just yours and yours alone.

Deb Caletti

#25. and after she went, Dalton didn't last long. His death certificate listed heart failure as the cause, but Owen Gray knew it had been loneliness and grief. After

James Thayer

#26. The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath.

Kellie Elmore

#27. A relationship is like a holiday from loneliness, beginning and ending in the same airport. The most awful thing about the end is that it reminds you so clearly of the beginning with the joy with which you set off. Everything is the same, yet everything has been inverted by grief.

Louis Buss

#28. I am taking this in, slowly,
Taking it into my body.
This grief. How slow
The body is to realize
You are never coming back.

Donna Masini

#29. The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.

Alden Bell

#30. Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.

Fr James Groenings

#31. Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Kohta Hirano

#32. We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own ...

Patrick Kavanagh

#33. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...

Sanhita Baruah

#34. Loneliness is a kind of suffering you can alleviate. It's not something you have to endure, like grief.

Dean Bakopoulos

#35. I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

Veronica Roth

#36. Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.

Paula Sharp

#37. In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars ... and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything ... other than how heavy ... and awkward the bottle had become.

Oliver Jeffers

#38. Letting myself fall wasn't easy. It wasn't hard either. It was a calling that I had to honour. I did honour. I took a plunge into my dark abyss. I faced my grief, my fear, my sadness, my loneliness, my anguish, myself. (Page 78)

Neena Verma

#39. To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Peter Heller

#40. How should they know? I can't reveal
to a single friend what my soul conceals,
whom I'm in love with or what I believe -
my dreams, my thoughts - or why I grieve.

Hristo Botev

#41. Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler ... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only I did ... Only I cracked, alone, later in the one place in our house where I knew I could go to be apart from the living and all that they cannot not do.

Philip Roth

#42. Some losses never heal you just learn to carry the burden and shed a tear every now and then

Tina Gayle

#43. I'm Phoenix. The mythical bird that rises from the ashes. I've risen from fear and grief, from scandal and suffering, and from the crushing loneliness of walking with a purpose that is outside myself, but not within me. I know what's within me now, and I'm ready to fly again.

Heidi Joy Tretheway