Best Grief And Loss Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 10

“I'd been given a foreign text to decipher, but I couldn't even identify the language, much less the meaning behind the words; she was speaking in some code (229)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Words had a purpose. Language had a purpose; I’d wrongly assumed that my mother wouldn’t misuse it (229)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Translation involves more than the deciphering of words, words strung together in sentences, in paragraphs, in dialogue, in the years of a life. After all, a machine can do that if you feed all the data into it. Translation also involves making sense of what’s left unspoken, those ellipses, blank spaces, the dot-dot-dots when you have to guess what’s happening in the person’s mind, what the silent messages mean. It calls for the translation of surrounding events, the cultural context, as well as the translation of nonverbal communication. What was being said through that certain look, that ever-so-tiny smile, that flash of a grimace? That spark of anger? Those sarcastic comments? Those prolonged silences? What did it all mean? (249)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“The most difficult thing for me to translate to date, though, has been my own life (250).”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“We no longer had a lingua franca after we moved there. We consisted of six people, our own little Tower of Babel… Six people speaking many different languages, none of them mutually intelligible. Six people bumping into each other in the dark, no longer able to understand each other, wounding one other in the process (257).”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Admittedly, a number of the translations of my life, of what went on in Ivy Lodge, are loose at best, warranting multiple-choice answers, never ideal in the scientifically based world of translation. You're supposed to go from the source language (the language being translated) to the target language (the language being translated into). A translation is only good when the translator knows--or can surmise--the intention of the person being translated, understands with a fair amount of confidence the exact meaning of that source language. Maybe that's one problem with my attempts to translate my family. Maybe my parents remained unclear in their own minds what they wanted to say, what their words and behavior meant, what their underlying motivation was. In that case, it makes translation doubly difficult if the source of the words and events to be translated is lost in a sea of linguistic confusion. Translators need patterns to make sense out of foreign words, or it all becomes a hodgepodge of meaningless sounds and symbols. Chaos (256).”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Jealousy, bitterness, or resentment do not mean that there is something wrong with you. They just mean something is wrong.”

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Book:Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss

Source: Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss

“I'm outside my parents' home in the aftermath of their deaths, waiting for my three siblings to arrive so we can go through it, room by room, object by object, memory by memory; decide what to keep, what to discard. Stepping out of my rental car, part of me feels like a trespasser now, while another part feels like I never left. (7)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“In addition to the physical aspects of the work, I'm here to recreate my own personal story, my own narrative. For years—a lifetime, really—when I thought about my life, I saw it through the lens of other people, usually my parents, sometimes my sib-lings. If they told me I was this, that, or the other type of person, I usually took their words at face value, even when the descriptions sounded negative, even when I fought their pronouncements. But translation is all about making decisions, hundreds, even thousands of decisions. Maybe a new way exists to look at myself, at my life. At long last, I’ll take those same words and events to come up with different meanings, different interpretations, ones I've reached on my own, stripping away others' interpretations of who I am. (9)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“I lead a completely different life than people close to me probably expected.”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“The translator in me--always at work, even in English-wants to understand the intent of his words. This is where the meaning must lie, right? With the filters turned off, the translator's mind is unfettered by others' words, actions, or opinions, or even by their mere presence. (15)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Tell me who I am, I’d asked my parents in so many ways. (16)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“By this time, we had all slung so many words at each other. (62)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“My goal consisted of trying not to anger her—or anyone… (73)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“I feel powerless to make decisions about what should or shouldn’t be thrown out down here. (88)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“In my case, I felt like I'd been drowning in a sea of words, words that, more often than not, bore no resemblance to their dictionary definitions. What was the point of communicating if, inevitably, a subtext bubbled up, one I had trouble making sense of in my naïveté, in my confusion? What was the point if a word's meaning had been distorted to fit secret agendas, flip-flopped for unknown ulterior motives, withheld for other reasons? Translating what anyone said had become impossible for me, my work with languages, my love of words failing me when it came to my own family. All my dictionaries proved useless in trying to decipher a lifetime of communication fraught with subtexts buried beneath more subtexts. (134)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“I don’t think I realized back then that I wanted to rewrite the past, though, perform a do-over. It’s only in hindsight I’ve come to this conclusion.”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Why did she keep these random items? How did they make the cut? Maybe she felt it had to be her decision what to keep, what to discard, just as it's my turn now, my decision as I go room to room, playing God with my parents' possessions. (148)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“When you're translating a document or a speech, if you don't have all the words, you don't have all the meaning. I'd only had my words thus far, my thoughts, not hers. That had given me an incomplete picture, one with pockets of omissions… (154)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“In my own way, maybe that's what I'm doing here, searching this home for anything that is evidence of my parents' love for me, for clues to the puzzle, translations of their behavior toward me. (156)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“For my part, I never knew who she’d be on any given day. Now that she’s gone, the mystery remains unsolved, part of my untranslatable life (161).”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Once our reasons to be together—our parents, our childhood years—had been removed, not much linkage between us remained (181).”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“If you live long enough, you are bound to experience enough grief. Do not let your past consume your present. Use the lessons learned the hard way to shape your future.”

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Book:Life of a Sunset Kid

Source: Life of a Sunset Kid

“Grief is an utterly selfish state of mind. Nobody can possibly understand the depth and complexity of your pain, the scale of your loss. It blinds you. It blinds you to so, so much.”

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Book:What Remains of Elsie Jane

Source: What Remains of Elsie Jane

“Grief to me is a dish best eaten alone, in a cold room.”

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Book:The Unmarriageable Man: A Novel

Source: The Unmarriageable Man: A Novel

“We are so obsessed with the quick clean end, the end that takes no longer than the length of a Hollywood film, that we have invented this word 'closure' for it-hoping that the truth of of this heroic compound will follow shortly after the naming of it. If the word exists, the concept must, mustn't it? But I will tell you differently. All that exists at the end is the sheer animal act of forgetting, and the act of forgiving ourselves for forgetting. It is a physical thing born of years of harrowing repetition and replay: the road so often travelled that the scenery is no longer visible, the paragraph so often read that the sense is no longer apparent. - Sanjay de Silva”

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Book:The Unmarriageable Man: A Novel

Source: The Unmarriageable Man: A Novel

“The Infinite One cannot be torn apart from itself. It is our personification of good, our belief that it belongs to a personal identity, that makes grief possible. And it is our understanding of universal good, God being everywhere and in everything, that heals it. The qualities and abilities we may miss in someone are not missing from Life. Every beautiful quality in someone is abundantly present and waiting to be recognised in all of Life’s great symphony.”

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Book:The Love of Being Loving

Source: The Love of Being Loving

“If Kushner’s view is correct, then renounce the members of the clergy as charlatans and discard the prayer books as offering only a placebo when true medicine is required. Throw away the Psalms as dealing in falsehoods. Excise “Thank God” from our discourse. If we can’t appeal to Him to help us because He is incapable, why should we thank Him when things go right? There is a certain intellectual dishonesty to this.”

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Book:Why God Why: How to Believe in Heaven When it Hurts Like Hell

Source: Why God Why: How to Believe in Heaven When it Hurts Like Hell

“They explained their concerns and she said, “I feel a kind of isolation that you’ll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what’s happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn’t want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?”

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Author:Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Grief is the language that love speaks after loss.”

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Author:John Mark Green

“Your passed loved ones are not dead and gone, nor are they removed from the life you’re still living. They are with you every single day, and they aren’t missing out on what’s happening in your life, either.”

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Book:11 Lessons from My Dead Dad: How I Learned To Communicate With My Passed Loved Ones & How You Can Too

Source: 11 Lessons from My Dead Dad: How I Learned To Communicate With My Passed Loved Ones & How You Can Too

“I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through”

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Book:A Heart That Works

Source: A Heart That Works

“In body, perhaps, but not in spirit, Manon knows what lies beneath, how people can seem normal and yet grief swirls about like an unseen tide working against the currents of life, the mourner wrong-footed by its undertow. The bereaved should wear signs, she thinks, saying GRIEF IN PROGRESS--at least for a couple of years.”

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Book:Missing, Presumed

Source: Missing, Presumed

“Sometimes our grief falls into an abyss, from where its whispers sound depressive. Grief itself is not depression though.”

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Author:Neena Verma, "Grief ~ Growth ~ Grace"

“Grief was a demon of possession. When people talked of time healing wounds, they only meant that over time you become accustomed to that demon inside you, and what at first felt like an invasive presence, alien and nefarious, slowly became integrated into your being, the imp of sorrow crouched within you for the remainder of your days.”

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Book:40

Source: 40

“You can suffer a loss when anything that mattered to you is no longer there, and as a result of that loss you can experience grief.”

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Book:Answers in the Dark

Source: Answers in the Dark

“Rather than being linear, grief is more like a rollercoaster than it is a flight of stairs.”

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Book:Answers in the Dark

Source: Answers in the Dark

“Your passed loved ones are not dead and gone, even when it feels like they are.”

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Book:11 Lessons from My Dead Dad: How I Learned To Communicate With My Passed Loved Ones & How You Can Too

Source: 11 Lessons from My Dead Dad: How I Learned To Communicate With My Passed Loved Ones & How You Can Too

“She was only another survivor Caught between a rock, A hard place and A broken game…”

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Book:Firebird

Source: Firebird

“Grief doesn’t end. That’s the myth I want to let go of once and for all. It doesn’t finish. It doesn’t fade neatly. It doesn’t follow a linear arc with a clean moral at the end. It changes shape. It tucks itself into different corners of your life. It surprises you. It adapts.”

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Book:Come As You Are: Five Years Later

Source: Come As You Are: Five Years Later

“Of course I must go. To acknowledge the markers on the Path is part of living and showing up for death is important, even when death takes its time.”

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Book:The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Grief isn’t linear, it isn’t logical. There’s no structure or civility to it. It grabs you when you least expect it and it digs in its nails until you succumb.”

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Book:The Golden Couple

Source: The Golden Couple

“Love is a bond that death cannot part. Gone from my arms, but still held in my heart.”

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Author:John Mark Green

“I thought the stars wouldn't shine, When you are gone, I thought that all the light, Would vanish from the sun. Let them stay forever then, Let their presence comfort me, Perhaps somewhere my love is still there, In some secret place where beautiful things run free.”

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Book:Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

Source: Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“Nobody talks about the other loss, the loss that happens within us. We lose people and things, but we also lose parts of ourselves. We grieve those missing parts too. We grieve them, and we grieve us. But I think losing those parts creates space. For newness. For understanding others’ hurts and welcoming them into our free spaces.”

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Book:Dearest Josephine

Source: Dearest Josephine

“spring passes and one remembers one's innocence summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance there is a season that never passes and that is the season of glass -- Season of Glass, 1981”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“I won't be bringing flowers, They cannot reach you where you are. Ashes would return into ashes, But the ashes won't bring you home. I won't be bringing flowers, They'd wither away and die. I'd bring instead some butterflies, To help you reach the skies.”

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Book:Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

Source: Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“Sometimes grief is like a wave, and healing is like a butterfly.”

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Book:Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

Source: Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“It is not because things die, That they are beautiful. Things are beautiful Because somehow, A part of them lives on And never dies…”

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Book:Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

Source: Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“Grief is a swarm of feelings that swirls inside of you for your whole life; it's a weight that settles around the eyes, transforms the shape of a laugh. It is sadness mixed with a furious rage churning in an ocean of helplessness. It's an old word, dating back to the 1200s, and its latin roots mean to "make heavy." The first six definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary describe various types of hardship or physical pain. The seventh definition makes me think grief is the correct term for the storm of emotion I associate with my mom's mental illness. "Mental pain, distress, or sorry...deep or violent sorrow, caused by loss or trouble; a keen or bitter feeling of regret for something lost, remorse for something done, or sorrow for mishap to oneself or others.”

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Book:And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir – A Poignant and Inspiring Coming-of-Age Story About Mothers and Daughters

Source: And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir – A Poignant and Inspiring Coming-of-Age Story About Mothers and Daughters

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