“… And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.”— Pablo Neruda, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Sorrows, Loss, Weeping
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, beauty
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”— Samuel Johnson, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Amusement
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”— Emily Dickinson, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Life
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Beloved
“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, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Beloved
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”— Anne Frank, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Pain
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”— Hilary Stanton Zunin, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Pain
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”— Queen Elizabeth II, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Price, Price We Pay For Love
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”— Vicki Harrison, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Ocean, Overwhelming
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Hell, Missing You