“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.” ShouldMotherCoursesGriefDarknessImpossiblePossibilityDenyGrievingRebirthTransformingRadiantOld Life Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.” IfsWayNeedsHandsMightPastGriefAcceptingImpossibleStageEmbraceAcceptableWay To LiveClingingFinalityEmbrace LifeStages Of Grief Author:Kristin Armstrong
“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.” ShouldLittlesFeltSidesLove IsRoomsGriefImpossibleDutyConscienceShould HaveCalmPityInjuryResentmentBoth SidesBruised Book:Selected Stories Source: Selected Stories
“Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.” MindHeartSeemsJoyWaitingLossGriefImpossibleSorrowEmptyVoidHeart And MindFill The Void Book:Wishing You Happiness Source: Wishing You Happiness
“Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you” IfsWayNeedsFeelsLongDoeHas BeensLyingDiesCoursesChanceGriefForeverImpossibleLoved OnesRest Of Your Life Author:John Green
“It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.” LifeMayMatterSeemsGriefImpossibleGoes OnDearGoing AwayOverwhelmingLost Love Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be” IfsMayShowsMightSpeakHurtGriefHealingFantasyImpossiblePossibilityConsolation Author:Lloyd Alexander
“It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And what was the purpose of these eyes, this impossible face, the softness and the curves of this body, the strength of this mind; what was the point, if none of the men who desired her were to give her any babies, and all it ever brought her was grief? What was the purpose of a woman monster?” IfsMenGivingMindMadeDoneBodyEyeFacesPurposeGriefFireViolenceImpossibleBabyCreatingAngryMedicineMonstersCurvesSoftnessThese Eyes Book:Fire Source: Fire