“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about.”— J.R. Ward, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Death, Past
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Death, lost, Alone
“Everyone disappears, just at a different speed.”— M. Ocean, amazon.comTagged: Disappears, Dying, Death
“I never dreamt it'd be this way I've lost any chance for me to say To say that I miss you, say that I love you Will someone please tell me I'm okay I wasn't prepared for what's to come A life made of memories gone so young And now I'm regretting all I've done But in your heart know that I'm with you…”— Amber Pacific, youtube.comTagged: Sad, Emo Lyrics, Death