Grieving Quote by Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars

“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged…

— George Orwell

“They seemed to arrive at some form of friendship. Maybe they were like a couple of weary soldiers who went through a war together,…

— Joyce Maynard

“Too many of our fathers and brothers, our friends and neighbors, have died defending their homes and families. Their spirits have gone to the…

— Matthew Palmer

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead…

— Colum McCann

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

“Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment behind the…

— Alan Bradley

“Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief…

— James Baldwin

“We are gathered here, friends,” he said, “to honor lo Hoon-yera Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya, children dead, all dead, all murdered in war. It is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Even their mother missed them—and how much more their tender-hearted cousin, who wandered about the house, and thought of them, and felt for them,…

— Jane Austen

“I buried my grief for my son, not my memories, but my grief.”

— Deborah Smith