Death Quote by Philipa Gregory

“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.”

— Kevin Powers

“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

“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

“She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Grief wasn't a feeling. It was a thing that visited. It was a weight, a lead wall, and it pressed on her lungs and…

— Meg Gardiner

“This was what real grief felt like—she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she…

— Dan Chaon

“But as time moved on, the nature of the grief changed. In some ways it was almost crueller in the way it took her.…

— Cass Green

“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and…

— Anne Ursu

“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She…

— M.L. Stedman

“The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her…

— Virginia Woolf

“Grief can put all kinds of regret into focus.”

— Abby Slovin

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

— Anne Lamott