Ache Quote by Anonymous

I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know…

— Emily Saliers

“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an…

— Leif Enger

Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical…

— Michael Beckwith

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And…

— Jodi Picoult

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

— Laura van den Berg

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to…

— Natasha Trethewey

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

— Andrew Solomon

My mother's death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing my dad…

— John Carter Cash

I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost…

— Teresa Giudice

In life, grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it no shortcuts and no…

— Anonymous

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was…

— Mike Mills

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

— Kendra Wilkinson