28 quotes found
“Your grief is something to be admired the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.”
“For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...It is a word...the word hangs o...”
“If we cant feel into the heart of grief, we cant truly move on to experience hope and joy. We cant be present to what is now, and what is next, because we are bound by the loss and sorrow that hold...”
“No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One Im forced...”
“Shed lost so much in the process of becoming Zyne, but somewhere in the middle of it all, shed found herself. Her heritage had shattered her illusions of a tranquil life. Destiny swept behind in a ...”
“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) its when were busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.”
“The journey across the landscape of loss to the inner self takes courage and persistence. It is a risky venture, with lots of false trails and humanising errors. It requires gentleness to know your...”
“Theres some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, e...”
“For so long, she had remained the sleeping volcano, her passion and pain and anger roiling quietly as lava within. Shed buried her love deep within her core; with heat and pressure she made diamond...”
“struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mothers sorrow and his sisters longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermits skull.”
“Ethel and Frances found a means for consolation together: travel.”
“In my life, no three miles have been flat and no three days have had sun. I've been brave in the past, but now I'm beyond devastated. My grief is like dense clouds that cannot be dispersed. I can't...”
“It was as though his son cheated him by depriving him of his beloved presence, the sweet and treacherous thief had plundered his heart. If Johnny had died in any other way, cancer or leukaemia he c...”
“But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity...”
“Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord's mother is weeping, She hath nor bread nor wine; She is weeping. The Queen of Heaven, She hath nor bread nor wine.”
“I held the cardboard and felt its scissor-cut edge. And for the first time I understood the shape of my grief. I could feel exactly how big it was. It was the strangest feeling, like holding someth...”
“We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism”
“You are never old enough to lose your mother.”
“It is ludicrous why we human beings try so hard to conceal our tear. We fail to fathom that the more we camouflage our tears, the more we escalate the burden of grief in our heart. It is simple and...”
“When shall I cease to regret you! When learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more!...”
