“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
“The emotions you experience are normal, even if they aren't what you expected. Allow yourself to feel each as it arises and understand that it will take some time to adjust to your new circumstances.”— Seven Ponds, sevenponds.comTagged: Loss, Grief, Grieving, Coping With Loss, 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
“Acceptance is not necessarily a permanent state, nor does it mark a return to happiness or your pre-loss state of mind. The death of your loved one has changed the circumstances of your world, and acceptance marks your understanding of this, as well as your willingness to move forward in life withou…”— Seven Ponds, sevenponds.comTagged: Loss, Grief, Grieving, Coping With Loss, After Death
“First understand that there is no ‘correct’ way to grieve. Grieving is not something you should be expected to simply ‘get over.”— Seven Ponds, sevenponds.comTagged: Loss, Grief, Grieving, Coping With Loss, After Death
“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must…”— John Green, Old Man, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“And then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness
“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
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another.”— Helen Keller, amazon.comTagged: Death, What It Feels Like To Die
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Death, Mourning
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”— Westley, amazon.comTagged: Romantic Speeches, Love, romance, Death, True Love
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Leaving, Loss, Relationships Ending, Gone, Mourning
“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Death Quotes, Mourning, Death, Relationships, After Life
“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
“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, funeral, Mourning
“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
“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
“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 ar…”— John Irving, amazon.comTagged: Missing, Death, Mourning
“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”— Carrie Jones, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Mourning, Death
“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just... something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day,…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Death, Mourning, Crying
“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
“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
“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
“What is death? A loss, a disappearance, a letting go, a saying good-bye. When you cling you refuse to let go, you refuse to say good-bye, you resist death. And even though you may not realize it, that is when you resist life too.”— Anthony De Mello, amazon.comTagged: Death, Dying, Loss, Defining Death
“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
“I was thinking about the finality of it all – how somebody can leave your world in the blink of an eye and be gone forever. It’s too enormous to think about. It’s too hard. And then you’re just supposed to go on, right, like just deal with it, I mean really you’re only supposed to be sad for as long…”— Haley James Scott, amazon.comTagged: One Tree Hill, Life, Death, Moving On
“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
“I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Beautiful Writing, Love, Kissing
“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Death, Crying, Tears