“His absence was so much more real than I thought it would be.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Loss, Death, I Miss You
“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
“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
“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Death, Moving On
“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
“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”— James Patterson, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Death, Moving On
“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
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for grant…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Death, Meaning, sacred
“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, Loved Ones, Thoughts
“Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form.”— Jan-Philipp Sendker, amazon.comTagged: Death, Together
“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, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Heartbroken
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.comTagged: Death, Love, mornings
“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ‘10 second heartbreak.’ That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.”— Nina Guilbeau, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Death
“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I kno…”— Nina Guilbeau, amazon.comTagged: Death, Pain, Time
“When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”— Meghan O'Rourke, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Death, Identity
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Death, Living
“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Death, Memories, Life
“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground. They are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Death, Love
“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
“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
“Accept that loss is a basic part of our life cycle. Whatever is born must die. Whatever grows must decay. These are universal laws. We tend to forget that these physical bodies are mortal. Everything we see around us will one-day decay and cease to be.”— Much Loved, muchloved.comTagged: Death, Grief, Grieving, Loss, After Death
“Today, 40,000 parents have lost their children. Tomorrow, another 40, 000 parents will lose their children. I am not alone in pain. Departure from the physical body is a natural part of life on earth.”— Much Loved, muchloved.comTagged: Death, Grief, Grieving, Loss, After Death
“[After losing a loved one] you must with emotional energy and reinvest it in other relationships. Many people misunderstand this task and believe it means forgetting about their loved one. They believe that this would be dishonoring their loved one's memory. This task is simply a continuation of the…”— 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
“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
“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
“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