147 quotes found
“Everything assumes a different intensity when you are feeling the pain of loss. Be prepared. A minor annoyance that you might once have managed with a shrug now becomes a nuclear crisis! You are no...”
“Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.”
“Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.”
“What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I love to believe that such shall be our awakening from earth to heaven. My faith never wavers that ea...”
“I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be s...”
“I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness set...”
“Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you...”
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than yo...”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
“For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.”
“I realized that it was not that I didnt want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didnt know why I wanted to go on”
“The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.”
“Time possesses emotional potency. For persons whom suffer from of bereavement, time possesses a healing capacity. Passage of time cures heartache by dimming the minds attunement to painful occurren...”
“There is no right or wrong way to grief. There is only one way - your way!”
“There comes a point in one's life where the people whom we grew up admiring begin to die, leaving a great chasm in the world. This is awful enough to deal with without having anything so annoying a...”
“The truth of it was he didn't want her. He wanted Mary Kate with every cell of his body. He missed everything about her. The feel of her sleeping at his side. Her gentle snores. Her soft brown curl...”
“Thankfully, our disappointments matter to God, and He has a way of taking even some of the bitterest moments we go through and making them into something of great significance in our life. Its hard...”
“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.”
“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someones fickle brain . . .”
“It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary...”
