grief Quotes

My son has died of AIDS.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.