Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
There is no space wider than that of grief.
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.
To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
