Quotes About Grieving Death

#1. Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

Hafez

#2. Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that
seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without
confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#3. Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.

Dianna Hardy

#4. Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Stephen Levine

#5. The intense roller coaster of emotions will gradually lesson over time. But there is no timeframe for the grieving process, and it will not be rushed, no matter how fast you'd like to "get over it." The reality is that there is no getting over it; you can only walk through it.

Elizabeth Berrien

#6. The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.

Kellie Elmore

#7. He wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

Sharon Sala

#8. As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love.

Amy Eldon

#9. Death is harder on those who are left behind.

Robert La Fosse

#10. For the rest of the morning they worked quietly ad steadily, realizing that their contentment here at Uncle Monty's house did not erase their parents' death, not at all, but at least it made them feel better after feeling so sad, for so long.

Lemony Snicket

#11. I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.

Sylvia Browne

#12. Perhaps it only applies in the States, where emotional optimism is a constitutional duty

Julian Barnes

#13. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.

Nina Sankovitch

#14. I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Edward Hirsch

#15. I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you.

Kellie Elmore

#16. Her death ... brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

Sheldon Vanauken

#17. This girl. In love with the boy she can't have. Grieving the death of her father, only to find out she's about to grieve the death of the only adult left in her life? This girl who's being told she can't keep the only family member she has left?

Colleen Hoover

#18. The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

Philippe Aries

#19. Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

Horace

#20. You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

Paramahansa Yogananda

#21. Yes, you are still grieving for the fact that Olly is not loving you as you love him. But death is no solution. Certainly not this horrible, messy death. Could you at least not consider possible option that is not leaving you looking diabolical at funeral?"
Oh, for the love of God.

Lucy Holliday

#22. When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

Stieg Larsson

#23. The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Gautama Buddha

#24. Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#25. At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.

James Van Praagh

#26. Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.

Caroline Flohr

#27. Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Grieving is not a race, nor is it a predictable experience - it is as unique as each and every one of us. Therefore by creating your own path you will find your own way through.

Corrie Sirota

#29. At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Tim O'Brien

#30. Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.

Bailey Vincent

#31. Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.

Lawren Leo

#32. Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#33. Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Mother Teresa

#34. Oh, the different consciousness between the grieving and the dying! One sees midnight, the other joyful sunrise. One sees death, the other Life as never before.

Richard Bach

#35. It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#36. Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.

Susan Gregg Gilmore

#37. Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back
to be sucked back
into it?

C.S. Lewis

#38. As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.

Nancy Horan

#39. It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

Jon Richardson

#40. Since every death diminishes us a little,
we grieve - not so much for the death
as for ourselves.

Lynn Caine

#41. We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#42. Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

Candy Lightner

#43. That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too.

Leslie A. Gordon

#44. Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Jessamyn West

#45. I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

Leslie Weatherhead

#46. He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

Donna Lynn Hope

#47. Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#48. Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#49. 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

#50. The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.

Elaine Pagels

#51. To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.

Florence King

#52. I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

Shannon Celebi

#53. Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern.

Joan Didion

#54. What happens when you return
and find nothing
but a hollowed shell,
shingles and floor,
walls and echoes
and the light that lead you here
has now burned out
and the ones who built it
have traveled afar
and you cant go to them,
no matter what shoes you wear.

Kellie Elmore

#55. After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.

Linda Alfiori

#56. When you miss someone, they leave a person-shaped hole behind in the world that nothing can ever fill. If you don't keep thinking about them, the edges of the hole shrink and fade. You can't let go or the last of them disappears.

Martha Brockenbrough

#57. You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me ... You'll be all right.

Cormac McCarthy

#58. There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.

Brian M. Holmes

#59. Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#60. Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death. Allowing this into your consciousness will not keep you from suffering, but it will help you survive the next day.

Cheryl Strayed

#61. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it.

Lynsay Sands

#62. A funeral is no place for secrets.

Mitch Albom

#63. Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.

Lance B. Wickman

#64. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

C.S. Lewis

#65. Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

Swami Satchidananda

#66. They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them. -Corinna

Carole Geithner

#67. I had met death before, in different forms
I knew quite well the pattern of my grieving. First came shock, and then tears, and then a bitter anger, followed by a softer grief that time would wear away.

Susanna Kearsley