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“You never know what you have till you've lost it.”
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
“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.”
“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 k...”
“There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - tha...”
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”
“It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.”
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows of things gone; not just the people themselves but everything connected to t...”
“All the sorrows of life are bearable if only we can convert them into a story.”
“Death and parting are the same.”
“Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.You will have your ups and downsand moments of terrorand brief moments of peace.You can only go as fastas the ride will take you.Just remember:It will end and yo...”
“She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from lossperhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learnin...”
“He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbors open field.Hes decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.”
“Do youOr do you not knowYou're with me more deadThan you were livingReach me some timeIn a dream may beLet me remember how sweetYour presence can beReach out your handsAnd call to meFor soon it wil...”
“The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.”
“Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body an...”
“We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows sou...”
“My moms smile is genuine,A lilac beamingIn the presence of her Sun.Indentions in the sand proveTimes linear progression,Her hair yet unblighted,Carrying midnights consistency.Clear tracks fading as...”
“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
“Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.”
