Love Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“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

“He had given up, she thought, or he had died trying to reach her mother before she did, and in neither of those instances…

— Joshua Ferris

“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

“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

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Once giving way to tears, she wept bitterly for all that she had lost, and all that she must lose so soon. Her mother…

— Willa Cather

“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

“She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she came into a vacancy in my heart, which closed upon her,…

— Charles Dickens

“Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we…

— Niall Williams