“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Conversations, Missing You
“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…”— John Irving, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Lose, Dealing With Men, Missing
“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn…”— Jojo MoyesTagged: Grief, Sad, expression, Crying, Life
“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, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Beloved
“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: Weeping, Crying, Sadness, Grief, Loss
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”— George Eliot, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Moving On
“Ain't no shame in holding on to grief... As long as you make room for other things too.”— Andre Royo, Bubbles, hbo.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss
“No one ever told me that grief felt like fear.”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Lose, Grieving, Fear
“I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, look: she existed.”— Meghan O'Rourke, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Clues, Poems
“One more day One more time One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied. But then again I know what it would do Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.”— Diamond Rio, youtube.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Time
“When we have joy we crave to share, we remember them.”— Sylvan Kamens, Rabbie Jack Riember, dignitymemorial.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Lose, Joy, Happiness
“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, Grief, Love
“I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'”— Maya Angelou, poemhunter.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Death, Loss, heart
“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.”— Thomas Campbell, bartleby.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Hearts, Life
“… And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.”— Pablo Neruda, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Sorrows, Loss, Weeping
“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Happy Endings, Endings, Sadness
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, heart, Secret
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”— Alphonse de Lamartine, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Missing You, Life
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”— Samuel Johnson, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Amusement
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”— Emily Dickinson, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Life
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Beloved
“I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Beloved
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”— Hilary Stanton Zunin, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Pain
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Darkness, Light
“It is 4am. Your perfume is on Everything, on me On all the world – you Are all around, you Are all of my tattered Senses and no poetry, No song, no writing, Nothing in the world Will make this better.”— David Jones, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Sadness, senses
“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Loss, Grieving, Sadness
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”— Vicki Harrison, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Ocean, Overwhelming
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Hell, Missing You