“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Loss, Hope, Fear
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about.”— J.R. Ward, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Death, Past
“Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.”— Rosamund Lupton, amazon.comTagged: funeral, Death
“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Mourning, unique
“We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."”— Henry Ward Beecher, amazon.comTagged: Death, grave, Birth
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Death, Adventure, Moving On
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loved Ones, Thoughts
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for grant…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Death, Meaning, sacred
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Love, Death
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Mourning, Time
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now ha…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, Grief, Death, Hope
“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent wh…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Death, Mourning, Time, Healing
“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be g…”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.comTagged: Death, Guilt, Grief
“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”— Arthur Golden, amazon.comTagged: Grief, helpless, Time
“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”— James Patterson, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Death, Moving On
“The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”— Michelle Moran, amazon.comTagged: character, Tears, actions
“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Death, Moving On
“It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.”— Hilary Thayer Hamann, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Mourning, Death
“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Death