Death Quote by Donna Tartt

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out…

— Donna Tartt

“Understand there’s no right or wrong way to grieve, including anticipatory grief. It’s like the ocean. It ebbs and it flows. There can be…

— Dana Arcuri

“Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes…

— Patricia Hickman

“In the mornings I awoke with salty crust of tears around my eyes--my grief struggling to surface when I was in my weakest, lost…

— Chandra Prasad

“It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a screen for…

— Karen Ann Hopkins

“It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as "anticipatory grief," the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory.…

— Kyo Maclear

“It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see…

— Leslie Jamison

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate…

— Joan Didion

“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…

— Susanna Kearsley

“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God’s…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even then that…

— Nicole Krauss

“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