“I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late.”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.comTagged: forgiveness, Timing, Too Late, Grief, Regret
“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.comTagged: forgiveness, Change, Pain, Loss, Grief
“You are a shadow my body leaves on other girls.”— Jon Sands, exceptindreams.livejournal.comTagged: Loss, Breakups, Poetry, Love, Grief
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Grief, Perseverence, Death
“It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Sorrow, Death, Losing Someone
“Sometimes it’s 9am on a tuesday morning and you’re standing at the kitchen bench waiting for the toast to pop up And the smell of dusty sunlight and earl gray tea makes you miss them so much you don’t know what to do with your hands.”— Rosie Scanlan, watchkimwritethings.wordpress.comTagged: Love, Missing Someone, Poetry, Breakups, Relationships
“Happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Sadness, Grief, Despair, Pain
“Grandma died in January 1942. No one knows how often I think of her and still love her.”— Ann Frank, amazon.comTagged: Love Always, Grief, Death, Losing Grandparents
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Grief, Stories, Perception, Worthlessness
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.”— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Loss, Trauma, Grief, Moving On
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”— R. R. Martin, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, Grief, Trauma
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their live…”— Wendell Berry, amazon.comTagged: Nature, Peace, Despair, Grief
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Desire, Moving On, Moving Forward, Grief
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Pain, Loss, Grief, Breakups
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Love, Belonging, Being Alone, Pain
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Loss, Longing, Love, Grief
“Tell me again about the part where grief is not my name.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.comTagged: Grief, Break Up, Sad, Spilled Ink, Poetry
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.comTagged: Life, Emotion, Trying, Grief, Pain
“A wounded deer leaps highest.”— Emily Dickinson, online-literature.comTagged: Poetry, emily dickinson, writer, Grief, Pain
“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other and if a thin voice cries out somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear and keep going.”— Geraldine Brooks, goodreads.comTagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Life, Change, Pain
“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”— Patti Davis, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Lose, Pain, Life
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Crying, Sadness, Pain, Grief, Loss
“Grief is like the ocean: it's deep and dark and bigger than all of us. And pain is like a thief in the night. Quiet. Persistent. Unfair. Diminished by time and faith and love.”— Samantha Walker, amazon.comTagged: Grieving, Loss, Relationships, Death Quotes