Grief Quotes

Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

But the place where we're most broken, most empty of ourselves... is the place where we can be filled in a way that is harder for people who haven't experienced a loss.

That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.

If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.

Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years, ” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.

I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.

Grief, as in everything, should be experienced in moderation. There is a time to grieve heavily but then there is a time to set it aside and become happy in life again.

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

You will live in me always. Your words, your heart, your soul are all part of me. My heart is full of your memories. Thank you for the gift of your life. I will never forget you.

You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.

You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time.

Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again.

Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn’t care who was cut in the process.

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

In order to heal, you have to first be broken.

We do not have control over many thingsin life and deathbut we do have controlover the meaning we give it.

They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna

Life isn't about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Love is love, " I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

was it scripted by God or I am playing with my life.

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.

Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind, when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Every brick being thrown at me I will use to build my Empire!

If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings.

SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.

We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…

With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese.

Grief was an ocean. We were sitting in the middle of it on makeshift life rafts, never knowing if we’d make it to shore.

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.

Healing Follows Forgiveness

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?