“Her lifetime was the work of balancing grief with joy.”— Claire Ibarra, amazon.comTagged: War, Death, Grief, Joy, emotions
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”— Queen Elizabeth II, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Price, Price We Pay For Love
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.comTagged: shakespeare, Crying, Grief
“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. 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…”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.comTagged: Death, Grief, Never Stop Loving, Never Stop Grieving
“Grief does not change you...It reveals you.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Human Connections, Scars, Grief, On Grief
“It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”— Lucy Kalanithi, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love After Death, Missing You, Grief, Losing Your Husband
“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
“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”— Andrew Solomon, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Depression, circumstance
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.comTagged: Love, Pay, Grief
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”— James Baldwin, amazon.comTagged: Hate, Pain, Suffering, Grief
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Time, Love, Loss, Pain, Grief
“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, Sorrow, Pain
“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, Loss
“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Re-invention
“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, books.google.comTagged: Grief, Pain, Suffering
“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.”— China Miéville, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Pain, Healing, Grief
“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Grief, Loss, Love
“You can either experience pain willingly or unwillingly, and pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Embracing Pain, Suffering, Grief, Breakups
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“Everybody wants to talk about the politics of my grief but nobody wants to talk about my grief.”— Jejune Being, facebook.comTagged: Grief, Empathy, talk aboout it
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Loss, Grief