Grief Quote by Julie Berry

“In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.”

— Anthony Burgess

“And maybe I was coping awfully well, I don’t know. Certainly I wasn’t howling aloud or punching my fist through windows or doing any…

— Donna Tartt

“Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.”

— Erin Merryn

“I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them…

— Markus Zusak

“I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as…

— Michele Jaffe

“Death came as a whisper. It wasn't frightening or horrible at all. In that final moment, it washed over me like a gentle wave,…

— Terry Lovett

“Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear…

— Robin Hobb

“One moment of unwelcomed silence is more disheartening than a lifetime of incessant screams. And the silence deafens me.”

— Scott Hildreth

“It seemed in life, whenever you were wanted, it was for some discussion or explanation. Silence was just something to be filled.”

— Jessie Atkin

“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.”

— Ahdaf Soueif

“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required…

— Joan Didion

“I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.”

— Knut Hamsun