Best grief & painful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.”

Heart Past Left Can Do Grief My Heart Painful Leafs Withered Time And Change Painful Past Withered Leaves

Author:Richard Henry Horne

“There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.”

Knows Hands Grief Seasons Painful Christmas Midst Sensations Rejoice Mirth Deep Grief

Book:Traits of American Life

Source: Traits of American Life

“And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.”

Self Sometimes Memories Grief Risk Possibility Letting Go Painful Visiting

Author:Amy Bloom

“If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.”

Ifs Looks Persons Able Actors Grief Tools Painful Access Look Up Unbelievable Youtube Unethical

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.”

People Ifs Kind Helping Interesting Grief Painful Awful Very Interesting

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.”

Pain Parent Grief Blessing Painful Sibling

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical presence left the planet. Working consciously with such an in-my-face overwhelmingly painful loss, I was able to process it to the point of accepting that although my relationship with her would be different, I could still sense and celebrate that there was no separation between our spirits. Being present and open to each stage of grief eventually led to her visiting me in my dreams and a tangible sense of her presence.”

“Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.”

Feels Done Death Grief Function Painful Grieving Void Torn Limbs Vivid Bereavement Parting Short Time Amputation

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”

Way Sometimes Moments Feelings Pain Next Loss Grief Week Periods Aging Painful Senses Tricks Realization Knees Unexpected Rip Protective

Book:Morning is a long time coming

Source: Morning is a long time coming

“Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It’s as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world’s all bright and shiny! Too bad you’re not.”

Ifs World Looks Long Seems Faces Walks Grief Darkness Painful Ice Sunshine Sunlight Slap Slap In The Face

Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series

Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series

“I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.”

Book Sometimes Helping Grief Journey Painful Forests Help Me Inches Blades Razors Shortcuts Anesthesia

Book:Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

Source: Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

Christian Death Grief Guilt Painful Mourning Companion Bereavement Mourn Griefing Death Grief Grief And Death Grief And Mourning Death And Mourning Death Mourning Mourning Death Painful Death Guilt Free

Author:Coco Chanel

“Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.”

House Loss Grief Painful Absence Enormous Your Presence Your Absence

Author:Donald Hall

“Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.”

Way Suffering Hurt Grief Sorrow Painful Scar Fades New Ways It Hurts Configuration Scabs

Book:Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Source: Men We Reaped: A Memoir

“Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.”

People Ifs Giving Persons Lost Grief Painful Remembrance Magnifying Remembrance Day

Author:Patti Smith

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