Death Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.”

— Anne Lamott

“Grief is such a strange thing. Sometimes it seems to be gone entirely, but then one smell or sound or memory and it's as…

— Natalie Whipple

“Grief was the most terrible feeling possible. Suffocating under the heaviness of regret. A body filled with rocks, each one placed there by a…

— Camille Di Maio

“My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the…

— William Shakespeare

“Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads…

— Gladys M. Hunt

“Grief is haunting — but sometimes, it’s also a guiding.”

— Carla J. Brooks

“I buckle over, sobbing, my head resting against the hard shower tiles. I remember crying like this when Sukey died, the tears harsh, devouring,…

— Hilary T. Smith

“Grief is an animal you can never quite tame: after a long silence in the shadows, it may stir again and scratch open the…

— Emmi Itäranta

“There was supposed to be grief when someone died, tears and heartfelt eulogies, the cutting pain of loss. Instead, he felt…nothing. Just numbness, an…

— Piper Vaughn

“Grief was messy. It didn’t have the elegance of longing, the poetry of heartbreak; its wholeness made it solid, its certainty made it base.”

— Lara Williams

“I was crazy with grief and loneliness, and most of all, with intense, overwhelming guilt that burned through every cell of my being hotter…

— Nancy S. Thompson