Grief And Regret Quotes

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
― Latoya Alston

“But in all of the sadness, when you’re feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking,

You’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love.

Grief is the proof that love is still there.”
― Tessa Shaffer, Heaven Has No Regrets

“Losing a loved one is a piece of your soul leaving this place. When enough pieces are lost, so is the soul.”
― Jeramie Curtice

“A howling sorry which is yes which is thank you which is onwards.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“When you lose a child, you grieve once because you have lost her, when you are barren, you grieve every day because of the child you could have had”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“There was almost an air of penance about her, as if, by doing these dirty jobs which she found so distasteful, she was trying to repay some debt. And, to judge from the shadowy sadness which she carried around her like a mantle, it was about as effective as throwing in spadefuls of sand to dam a flowing river.”
― Kathy Shuker, Deep Water, Thin Ice

“Even the strongest hearts can be fragile. It takes only seconds to hurt someone. But sometimes it takes years to repair the damage. Cherish the hearts that love you.”
― Kiran Shaikh

“What’s left when a loved one dies?

What is the point of endless grieving and mourning?

Can it bring the dead back to life?”
― Tina Sequeira

“Suppressed grief is like an ember. It radiates a burning glow in the chest. If disregarded, it could rekindle a fire.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“This cowardice, unknowingness in the face of my own feelings is why I betray those I love, verbally, when I refused to express my feelings for them.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“Just like every relationship is different so is every loss, but end up sharing two very different and distinct characteristics, gratitude and regret.”
― Richard Lawrence Belford

“My sorrow starts as a steady stream
until the tears run like rapids,
spilling . . .
bursting . . .
gushing . . .

And I can’t dam the grief because, you see, there are things I should’ve told you.”
― Shayla Raquel, All the Things I Should've Told You: Poems on Love, Grief & Resilience

“with a handful of pills
in the depths of the night,
she dreamed she held the moon still
on a string like a kite”
― Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace

“While enduring the human condition, may we find strength in its temporary nature.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“If it wasn’t for my mother, I might have just wound up just like the pet alligator at the Chinese restaurant. Caged and gawked at in its luxurious confinement, unceremoniously disposed of as soon as it’s too old to fit in the tank.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart