“I don’t believe in goodbyes. I don’t believe that the connections we have to people and things are temporary. That somewhere along the way they cease to exist, cease to carry meaning, cease to be something real. Because no matter the time, the distance, the loss in our life, they will forever carry…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Saying Goodbye, Losing A Loved One, Falling Out Of Love, Losing Love, The End Is Not The End
“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more. It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who…”— Jojo MoyesTagged: Death, Loss, Living, Moving On, Losing A Loved One
“Loss is a part of life. Over the years I’ve lost several people who are dear to my heart. Nothing can ever bring them back but when I think of them, their values and virtues, I can keep their spirit alive within me and that is a meaningful feeling. The most important thing to remember, however, is t…”— Demi Lovato, amazon.comTagged: strength, Finding Strength, Losing A Loved One
“I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable, and how really, the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaningless of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us—not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him in and breathing him out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I could't distinguish among the pains.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a per…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“The grief. It came crashing in like a tidal wave. The very thought of it still sends a shiver down my spine: makes me wince a little. The weight of it. Those vacant, anguished expressions, and the way we nestled into each other, softly, and the endless cups of too-strong tea that were made by distra…”— Kathy Brown, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Loss, Losing A Loved One, Dealing With Death, Understanding Death
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death
“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death
“People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from…”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death
“My loved one is an eternal, immortal soul who continues to live in another dimension more beautiful than the one in which I currently exist.”— Much Loved, muchloved.comTagged: Death, Grief, Grieving, Loss, After Death
“Death is an Illusion. The soul never dies. We are all souls having a human experience, not the other way around.”— James Van Praagh, healyourlife.comTagged: Death, After Death, Grief, Grieving, Loss
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”— Rumi, pinterest.comTagged: Grief, Loss, Losing A Loved One, Death, After Death
“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.”— Thomas Campbell, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Grief, Grievig, After Death
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Losing A Loved One, Loss, Grief
“I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day and through.”— Billie Holiday, youtube.comTagged: Death, Loss, Losing A Loved One, Grief, After Death