Grief And Loss Quotes

Grief And Loss Quote of the day

My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.

It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….….. and you’ll erase me completely.

I try to do something positive – I socialise more…But deep down I know the truth.An entire world of people can never replace the one that I’ve lost.

When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.

Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years, ” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.

It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying, like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it’s vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.

Hitting bottom is an inside job — it's something that happens within our consciousness.

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

I still think of you every day.But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.

Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

How do you love someone and just… walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that? How can you be okay with that?

My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.

Grief, as in everything, should be experienced in moderation. There is a time to grieve heavily but then there is a time to set it aside and become happy in life again.

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.

To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

... he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

Every brick being thrown at me I will use to build my Empire!

You will live in me always. Your words, your heart, your soul are all part of me. My heart is full of your memories. Thank you for the gift of your life. I will never forget you.

Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?Isn't there a difference between things and human beings?

I will always wear this scar. It's called love.

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.

I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.

If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.

...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.

You are never old enough to lose your mother.

You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.

The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes.Breathing your air…. touching your skin…… Saying goodbye….The last time I felt alive…. I was dying.

He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have…

Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

But in all of the sadness, when you’re feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, You’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love. Grief is the proof that love is still there.

Though these words will never find you, I hope that you knew I was thinking of you today….. and that I was wishing you every happiness.Love Always, The girl you loved once.

We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism

She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.

Like so many others my story begins with that same old line…. ‘So anyway, there was this guy….’ Until one day…. there wasn’t.And nothing was ever the same after that….