“Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Family, Friends, Mourning
“You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around -- beds, pillows, arms, laps.”— Patti Davis, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Mourning, Death
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our pride…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Loss, God, Pain, Compassion
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”— José N. Harris, amazon.comTagged: Tears, Crying, Mourning
“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, funeral, Mourning
“Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form.”— Jan-Philipp Sendker, amazon.comTagged: Death, Together
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Death, Living
“Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Crying, Tears, Life
“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart.”— Erin Morgenstern, amazon.comTagged: Mourning, Siblings, Loss
“When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”— Meghan O'Rourke, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Death, Identity
“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just... something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day,…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Death, Mourning, Crying
“If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning. They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop.”— Alan Moore, amazon.comTagged: funeral, Death, Mourning
“I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you—oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad r…”— James Whitcomb Riley, amazon.comTagged: Death, unknown
“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I kno…”— Nina Guilbeau, amazon.comTagged: Death, Pain, Time
“Grief is a house where no one can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out.”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Death, Siblings
“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ‘10 second heartbreak.’ That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.”— Nina Guilbeau, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Death
“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”— Carrie Jones, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Mourning, Death
“Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.”— Brian Ruckley, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Death, Loss
“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”— Kristina McMorris, amazon.comTagged: Death, Love, Crying
“I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care... didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter.”— Robert Kirkman, amazon.comTagged: Death, Mourning
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.comTagged: Death, Love, mornings
“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”— Stephen King, books.google.comTagged: Family, Mourning, Death
“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you mis…”— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Guilt, Missing
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will ‘lessen as time passes,’ but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be abl…”— Fredrik Backman, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Pain, Loss
“What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?”— Jess Walter, amazon.comTagged: Love, Marriage, Death
“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”— John Scalzi, amazon.comTagged: cemetery, Death, Missing
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Heartbroken
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”— Katharine Weber, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Lessons, Choices
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that ar…”— John Irving, amazon.comTagged: Missing, Death, Mourning
“I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.comTagged: Love, Grief, Death