Best Grief And Loss Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 12

“When we grant ourselves permission to grieve, we make the experience of grief something we recognize, something we welcome into our lives. We allow it to show up the way it wants to through feelings, identities, and actions. We write our own expectations and stories. Our grief becomes ours again and we become more ourselves again because we actively choose to experience grief.”

Stories Feelings Loss Grief Identity Emotions Expectations Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Grief wants to be seen, heard, and listened to... just like we do.”

Love Loss Grief Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“While grief invites us to feel the full spectrum of human emotions, it also invites us to deepen our love for ourselves. That means feeling exactly how we’re feeling in every moment. That means meeting and embracing the darkest, ugliest, most conventionally “unlovable” pieces of ourselves and acknowledging that yes, even grief belongs to us, too.”

Loss Grief Belonging Grief And Loss Belong Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“you can’t skip the uncertainty of not knowing who you are. You can’t skip the reality of having an uncertain identity. It’s often the hardest part of grief, because unlike shifting feelings that can resolve themselves in minutes or hours, shifting identities can take years to resolve. Sometimes who you are is “suspended” for a very long time before you feel like you’ve found solid footing again.”

Loss Grief Self Help Identity Self Love Self Improvement Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Don’t ask your losses to stay small so that you can feel safe.”

Loss Grief Identity Safe Safety Grief And Loss

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Allowing grief to make its mark in your life—whether you’re altering habits and routines, making art, or attending a grief event—acknowledges and honors the fact that grief is a powerful, life-altering force.”

Art Loss Grief Creativity Creation Grief And Loss

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Life is linear until it isn’t.”

Life Loss Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“When we’re grieving, we’re consciously or unconsciously walling ourselves into expectations, false stories, and myths.”

Loss Grief Expectations Grief And Loss

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“I stood laughing in the kitchen because for the first time since my mom had died, I saw my whole self in my grief. I embraced her and let her be what she was. I didn’t reject her life, and I didn’t reject her in mine. I allowed her to show up as the messy, heartbroken, rage-filled nut that she was...and I loved her. I was delighted by her and humored by her and honored to be in her powerful, awesome presence.”

Life Humor Loss Grief Laughter Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Asking our emotions to stay predictable, easy, and flat in grief is like asking the ocean to be a smooth, glassy, back- yard pool. It’s just not possible. Can you imagine an ocean that didn’t roar and crash into the shore? It wouldn’t be an ocean, would it? We allow our humanness in grief by giving ourselves permission to experience our feelings in their fullness as they surface.”

Loss Grief Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Grief does not want to force itself into a life, a body, or an identity it has outgrown. Grief does not want to take shelter in a new life, a new body, or a new identity it is not ready to call home. Grief wants to be given time, space, and support in the in-between. It wants to be given room to help you decide who you are in the aftermath of loss without the pressure to decide RIGHT NOW.”

Loss Grief Identity Pressure Belonging Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“No matter what society, movies, or the nightly news would like you to believe, there is no finite ending to grief.”

Loss Grief Grief And Loss Ending

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Grief looks, feels, and shows up differently to each person. Just like no two losses are alike, no two griefs are alike, either. You cannot know the full depth of another person’s experience and they cannot know the full depth of yours.”

Loss Grief Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet.”

Loss Grief And Loss

Book:Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Source: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

“Once grief enters your life, it remains a part of your life whether you acknowledge it or not.”

Loss Grief Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“Grief is not fixable, curable, or preventable. It is not a “condition” or pathology.”

Loss Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss

“An experience most deeply felt is the most difficult to convey in words. Remembering brings the emptiness, the acutely painful awareness of irreparable loss. ...Every time I see the grave, I get that empty feeling where something was, and isn't anymore, and will never be again.”

Loss Grief And Loss My Education A Book Of Dreams

Author:William S Burroughs

“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart The charm of Sympathy; her mutual wail How soothing! never can her warm tears fail To balm our bleeding grief's severest smart; Nor wholly vain feign'd Pity's solemn art, Tho' we should penetrate her sable veil. Concern, e'en known to be assum'd, our pains Respecting, kinder welcome far acquires Than cold Neglect, or Mirth that Grief profanes. Thus each faint Glow-worm of the Night conspires, Gleaming along the moss'd and darken'd lanes, To cheer the Gloom with her unreal fires.”

Tears Sorrow Concern Pity Neglect Grief And Loss Soothing Mirth

Book:Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace

Source: Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace

“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 wise to let the burden of grief metamorphose into tears and flow from our eyes.”

Tears Grief And Loss

Author:Purba Chakraborty

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”

“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief…. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance ….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.”

“I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.”

“I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.”

“I have poured my heart out …. And now I am empty.”

“I didn’t love you to seek revenge. I didn’t love you out of loneliness or unhappiness. I didn’t love you for any of the misguided reasons that time might convince you I did. I just loved you because you’re you.”

“It’s times like this…. when it’s over a year later and I’m still crying over you that I want to turn to you and say: See…. This is why I asked you never to kiss me.”

“I try to do something positive – I socialise more… But deep down I know the truth. An entire world of people can never replace the one that I’ve lost.”

“They say “Follow your heart”…. …. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…”

“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.”

“The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted.”

“We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of them in the water.”

Letting Go Grief And Loss Letting Go Of The Past

Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“the air of expectation, empty, one last static slip, as if breaking the circuit on the electric fence but her mind had traveled miles up to this point, and she could only go alone”

Poetry Letting Go Memory Grief And Loss

Book:Reaching Marrakesh

Source: Reaching Marrakesh

“I have a daughter I have never held. She has a scent I have never smelled She has a name I have never yelled. She has a mother who has already failed. Love, Kenna”

Love Mother Quotes Failing Daughter Grief And Loss

Book:Reminders of Him

Source: Reminders of Him

“Aunt-Sister would’ve said, ‘Let her go, it’s past the time,’ but I wanted the pain of mauma’s face and hands more than the peace of being without them.”

Grief Letting Go Grief And Loss

Book:The Invention of Wings

Source: The Invention of Wings

“Loss of a relationship is painful, but if you lose yourself in a relationship, when it ends, it's devastating, because you are lost.”

Relationships Self Esteem Grief And Loss Breakups Breakup Quotes Codependency Loss Of Love Loss Quotes Codependency Quotes

Author:Darlene Lancer

“If you really love someone you say goodbye without ever leaving.”

Love Grief And Loss Lost Love

Book:Beasts of a Little Land

Source: Beasts of a Little Land

“Every tear that I shed in pain of the grief gifted by your love, I do not cry tears as if I am helpless. I am letting go of your love with each drop of my tears. It's love draining out. Maybe the pain will stay but these tears will clear the air and help my clouded heart navigate back to its origin. Origin; away from the variables of your liking”

Sorrow Grief And Loss Lost Love Parting Betrayl

Author:Sappho Khizar

“Remember me a little while, Pause in the orchard where we often walked, When days were longer and the world was ours. Say, "Cara, please!" one last time, and smile. From beneath the apple tree, Glance up to where I once looked down at you. Wear, just once more, The look that said I was your love, And you were mine until my end. I knew it all the while. Miss me, but not for long. I was your joy, Don't let me be your woe, So remember me, and smile. Then let me go.”

Grief And Loss Lost Love Beyond The Grave

Book:Farelli's Wife

Source: Farelli's Wife

“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”

Love Life Inspirational Grief Emptiness Existentialism Grief And Loss Lost Love Wordsofwisdom Loss Quotes

Author:Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one? Isn't there a difference between things and human beings?”

Love Death Loss Grief Divorce Grief And Loss Lost Love Relations Separations

Author:honeya

“I wept for him while he was still alive to know it”

Death Grief And Loss Parting

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“Suppressed grief is like an ember. It radiates a burning glow in the chest. If disregarded, it could rekindle a fire.”

Grief And Loss Loved Ones Grief Quotes Grief And Healing Loss Quotes Grief Support Loved And Lost Grief And Regret Rekindle The Flame Supressed

Author:Anoir Ou-chad

“I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing. But I was wrong. Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn. - Florence Day”

Death Grief Mourning Grief And Loss Death And Dying Death Of A Parent Ashley Poston The Dead Romantics

Book:The Dead Romantics

Source: The Dead Romantics

“To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.”

Death Family Grief And Loss

Book:A Boy Called Christmas

Source: A Boy Called Christmas

“Mother died when he was twelve. He did not want sympathy, he only wanted her back.”

Parents Grief And Loss Sympathy

Book:The Great Mistake

Source: The Great Mistake

“Would've, should've, could've. Hindsight is such a bitch.”

Love Death Grief Books Regret Mourning Grief And Loss Death Of A Loved One Death Of A Parent Book Quotes Bookworm

Book:The Dead Romantics

Source: The Dead Romantics

“Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.”

Loss Grief Losing Outcomes Grief And Loss Consequences Cause And Effect Lose Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When Shi Mei died, Mo Weiyu disappeared from the world. And when Chu Wanning died......? Mo Ran didn't know. All he knew was the feeling of the person in his arms slowly growing colder and colder on that day. He didn't cry, nor did he laugh; joy and sorrow both grew out of reach. When Chu Wanning died, Mo Weiyu no longer knew what the world even was anymore.”

Love Death Grief Grief And Loss

Book:二哈和他的白貓師尊

Source: 二哈和他的白貓師尊

“I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone, I feel I am alone. I check’d him while he spoke; yet, could he speak, Alas! I would not check. For reasons not to love him once I sought, And wearied all my thought To vex myself and him: I now would give My love could he but live Who lately lived for me, and, when he found ’Twas vain, in holy ground He hid his face amid the shades of death. I waste for him my breath Who wasted his for me! but mine returns, And this lorn bosom burns With stifling heat, heaving it up in sleep, And waking me to weep Tears that had melted his soft heart: for years Wept he as bitter tears. Merciful God! such was his latest prayer, These may she never share. Quieter is his breath, his breast more cold, Than daisies in the mould, Where children spell, athwart the churchyard gate, His name and life’s brief date. Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe’er you be, And oh! pray too for me!”

Love Death Loss Grief Regret Grief And Loss Unrequited Love Transience Of Life

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“Not everyone deserves to hear your grief. Not everyone is capable of hearing it. Just because someone is thoughtful enough to ask doesn't mean you are obliged to answer.”

Grief Self Awareness Thoughtful Grief And Loss Self Care Sharing

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

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