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“To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.”
“We should be sure that in our pursuit of happiness and positivity, we do not lose our ability to experience the other side of life, as well. Feelings of grief and respect for the departed, are hono...”
“Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.”
“I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.”
“I want to believe him. I know stuff happens to people and they can't always be who they were or who they think they're supposed to be. But knowing that doesn't mean I'm okay with it. It's more like...”
“Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than it ...”
“If you tell someone you have depression, they will often say, "Oh, I've been depressed before, too." The difference lies between being depressed and having depression. Everyone's been depressed at ...”
“Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.”
“We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.”
“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.”
“What is coping? This is what it is like: a cave underground deep in rock, hung across its roof with accretions of dripping salts. I am cavernous and hard as mineral. The cave holds a pool of dark w...”
“Life simply blew through her.”
“Grieving is not a race, nor is it a predictable experience - it is as unique as each and every one of us. Therefore by creating your own path you will find your own way through.”
“We all handle loss in our individual ways, grieve in all kinds of ways. We all go through feeling okay sometimes, but other times, we feel so bad we hurt ourselves or those around us.”
“It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care wa...”
“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.”
“The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.”
“Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.”
“The dirty secret shed learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People youd once considered friends would turn their heads in church or cross to a...”
“...I still saw everything through the filter I had created in order to survive. I could not see the happiness that preceded the abyss. I had forced myself not to acknowledge my life's most splendid...”
