Best Grieving Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make room for and witness and invite each other's unfixing and so are unfixing ourselves; when we join the grieving, or when we join in grieving, and when we do it again and again, making of that soft, mutual, curious, groundless witnessing not only an endeavor, but also a practice (we're talking about practice again); when we do these things, we fall apart into one another. We fall into each other.”

Inspirational Joy Human Grieving

Book:Inciting Joy: Essays

Source: Inciting Joy: Essays

“The universe - fate - is cruel and random. Things happen for many reasons. Things happen for no reason. To shoulder the burden of the universe's caprice is too much for anyone. And it's not fair to you.”

Grief Fate Grieving Closure

Book:Goodbye Days

Source: Goodbye Days

“Loss has a way of grounding us, reminding us to cherish every moment and to ensure that every action we take—big or small—has meaning.”

Love Loss Parenting Humanism Grieving

Book:Humanism from the Heart: Building Bridges Beyond Belief

Source: Humanism from the Heart: Building Bridges Beyond Belief

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

Love Pain Hope Loss Grief Sadness Strength Tears Grieving

Book:MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

Source: MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

“You’ve got to trust yourself. Be gentle with yourself. And listen to yourself. You’re the only person who can get you through this now. You’re the only one who can survive your story, the only one who can write your future. All you’ve got to do, when you’re ready, is stand up, {and begin again.}”

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Book:Heaven Has No Regrets

Source: Heaven Has No Regrets

“Permission calls us home to ourselves. It brings us back to where we belong. And it reminds us that we are safe, sound, and secure—even when everything around us is falling apart.”

Home Grief Safe Grieving Belonging Grief And Loss Permission Belong

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

“He was both everything I could ever want… And nothing I could ever have…”

“The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes. Breathing your air…. touching your skin… … Saying goodbye…. The last time I felt alive…. I was dying.”

“I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.”

“It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it”

“He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.”

Love Suffering Grieving

Book:The Monster in the Hollows

Source: The Monster in the Hollows

“It's okay to not be okay, it means your mind is trying to heal itself. Persevering pain for those who live, the sun will rise once again.”

Death Suffering Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Death Of A Loved One Bereavement Mental Health Awareness Bereaved

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“There are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all the years, a bag of stones that goes with one wherever one goes and however the hour may call for dancing and for light feet. energies of the world, better than anger, better than bitterness and, because more interesting, more alleviating. And there is the thing that one does, the needle one plies, the work, and within that work a chance to take thoughts that are hot and formless and to place them slowly and with meticulous effort into some shapely heat-retaining form, even as the gods, or nature, or the soundless wheels of time have made forms all across the soft, curved universe—that is to say, having chosen to claim my life, I have made for myself, out of work and love, a handsome life.”

Life Suffering Work Loss Grief Healing Grieving

Book:Upstream: Selected Essays

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

“We see that in life it is necessary to grieve those things that no longer serve us and let them go. We experience conflicts, loved ones die or suffer, dreams never manifest, illnesses occur, relationships break up, and there are unexpected natural disasters. It is so important to have ways to release those pains to keep clearing ourselves. Hanging on to old pain just makes it grow until it smothers our creativity, our joy, and our ability to connect with others.”

Pain Grief Grieving

Author:Sobonfu Somé

“Here's the truth of the matter: growth is not the goal of grieving. Nor is it a mark that someone has grieved well. Grieving is the process of survival, resilience, rebuilding, connecting with the past, redefining your identity, recalibrating your values, and so on. Some people will experience growth as a by-product of this process, but certainly not all. And, those who do feel they've experienced growth often don't see it this way for some time after their loss. Another little-known truth is that one may feel they have experience growth in their grief yet still feel intense pain over the loss. It's important to talk about the true nature of post-traumatic growth so people understand that it's not an easy path out of or around pain. On the contrary, only through confronting and struggling with pain can such growth and transformation occur.”

Pain Growth Loss Grief Learning Grieving Maturation

Book:What's Your Grief?: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss

Source: What's Your Grief?: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss

“Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.”

“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”

“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”

Source: Barefoot in November

“A word of consolation may sweetly touch the ear. Now and then a quiet song will clear the mind of fear. A simple act of kindness can ease a load of care. Stories told in memory diminish all despair. A whispered prayer of comfort draws angel arms around. Counting blessings, great and small, helps gratitude abound. These acts, all sympathetic, will kindly play their part. But seldom do they dry the tears shed mutely in the heart.”

Loss Compassion Sorrow Comfort Empathy Grieving Richelle Goodrich Richelle E Goodrich Sympathy Richelle Consolation Solace

Book:Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.”

Helping Pain Friendship Grief Friends Sorrow Empathy Grieving Richelle Goodrich Richelle E Goodrich Sympathy Richelle Hug Hardships Hugs

Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”

“From a medical standpoint, the third and the most probable explanation is that Jesus was indeed dead, and what his disciples experienced were mere hallucinations evoked by the grief over the loss of their beloved teacher. It is clinically known as “Post-Bereavement Hallucinations Experiences” or PBHE.”

Source: Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

“He was a practical man: give him a sensitive technical instrument, and he could maintain it; something broken, and he could mend it, meditatively, efficiently. But confronted by his grieving wife, he felt useless.”

Men Husband Grieving

Book:The Light Between Oceans

Source: The Light Between Oceans

“Behind every death lay a set of questions. To move on was to agree to not disturb these questions, to let them settle with the body under the earth. Yet some questions so thoroughly dismantled the terms of your own life, turning away was gravitationally impossible. So she would not be moving on. She would keep disturbing and disturbing. She imagined herself standing over a grave with a shovel and hacking away at the soil.”

Life Death Relationships Loss Grief Moving On Grieving Questions

Book:The Third Hotel

Source: The Third Hotel

“A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.”

Love Life Wife Sad Moving On Grieving

Book:Anybody Out There?

Source: Anybody Out There?

“It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting.”

Love Life Wife Sad Moving On Grieving

Book:Anybody Out There?

Source: Anybody Out There?

“If someone tells you that you should have gotten over something or someone by now, don’t believe it. Believing there’s some appropriate time frame for getting over something is just one more way to keep yourself stuck. But neither should you believe that there’s nothing you can do to enable yourself to let go, or that it just takes time.”

Feelings Growing Grieving Toxic Positivity

Book:Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

Source: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

“Though these words will never find you, I hope that you knew I was thinking of you today….. and that I was wishing you every happiness. Love Always, The girl you loved once.”

“But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depredation claim of the heart? Maybe I could file some form to get back the years I'd grieved for my mother, father, and sister. Or maybe I could submit a claim to have our dignity returned to us, sealed in an official envelope, the sins of the past magically wiped out, gone like the buffalo.”

Dignity Grieving Indigenous

Book:Winter Counts

Source: Winter Counts

“I write what I love. I will not stop – even when my hand hurts…. …. because I cannot stop – even though my heart hurts….”

“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry.”

Sorrow Sad Leaving Grieving Numb No Turning Back James Baldwin Giovanni S Room

Book:Giovanni’s Room

Source: Giovanni’s Room

“It's okay to feel emotions. It's part of life. It's one of the many things that is Ravia's guidance. Everyone goes through strife, through grief, through hard times. It's what we do during the worst that matters.”

Love Loss Grief Fantasy Sad Grieving Hard Times Strife Hurtful Hurting

Book:The Legend of Acacia Vitak

Source: The Legend of Acacia Vitak

“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed itself into into a different room, and trapped you in it without them.”

Death Grief Grieving Death Of A Loved One

Book:Pure Colour

Source: Pure Colour

“You Still Live (Overcoming Grief Sonnet) After your month long battle for breath, Today I place you in nature's lap. I know she'll care for you well, like she once brought you to the world. Fact of the matter is, you still live, just in different form among the elements. Nature's forces make us awake and restless, Nature's forces coerce us into eternal rest. There is no heaven, there is no hell, these are concepts made by cowards. Life is too sacred to be confined by obsolete lies and superstitions. Your light of affection shall continue to shine bright in my memories. You who was, nay, is like my second mother, I won't say goodbye, for you still live.”

Death Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Afterlife Death Of A Loved One Grief And Healing Grief Inspirational Grief Support

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Bereavement Sermon (The Sonnet) You don't find a way out of grief, You embrace it and it becomes your strength. You don't find a way out of suffering, You surf it and it endows you with courage. Avoiding sorrow you won't find happiness, Road to happiness goes through sorrow. No matter how dark life seems tonight, without heartwrecking darkness, we'll never discover resilience, and grow. Amidst the grief none of this makes sense, I've felt it first hand this past month. So I say, it's okay to be shattered to pieces, but you must gather the pieces and soldier on, for the sake of your living loved ones. It's okay to not be okay, it means your mind is trying to heal itself. Persevering pain for those who live, the sun will rise once again.”

Death Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Death Of A Loved One Bereavement Grief Quotes Grief Inspirational Grief Support Bereaved

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every time I do, the pain of his absence pierces my chest. That’s the thing about losing someone: there’s one major death followed by a million little deaths.”

Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Death Of A Loved One Missing Someone Losing Someone Universal Truths Death Of A Friend Losing A Friend Death Of A Sibling

Book:Under Shifting Stars

Source: Under Shifting Stars

“Right after her funeral I felt the way you feel when it suddenly starts raining hard, and you look around and find no place to take shelter.”

Grieving Death Of A Loved One Grieving The Loss Of A Mother

Book:The Story of the Lost Child

Source: The Story of the Lost Child

“What’s left when a loved one dies? What is the point of endless grieving and mourning? Can it bring the dead back to life?”

Death Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Death And Dying Death Of A Loved One Death Quotes Grief And Loss Quotes Death Quotations Grief And Regret

Author:Tina Sequeira

“this loss feels like an ache between my ribs it’s sad and scary but soft and steady it’s always there humming loudly beneath it all beneath it all sometimes it rests and just whispers ssshhhhhhhh it only takes one moment of missing you to make it roar”

Loss Grieving Death And Dying Death Of A Loved One Loss Of Family Greif

Book:Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

Source: Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

“We may try to run away from grief and escape its terrible clutches. Perhaps we immerse ourselves in work or other activities. We busy ourselves and refuse to look back over our shoulder. Grief will follow us. It will hide around the corner so in that moment when our activity lulls, grief will pounce. Grief will never leave until it is defeated.”

Grief Grieving Mourning Death Of A Loved One Overcoming Grief

Book:"When Will It Stop Hurting?": One Man's Journey Through Grief

Source: "When Will It Stop Hurting?": One Man's Journey Through Grief

“The truth of it was he didn't want her. He wanted Mary Kate with every cell of his body. He missed everything about her. The feel of her sleeping at his side. Her gentle snores. Her soft brown curls tickling his nose enough to wake him from a sound sleep even on nights when he needed it most. Her smile. The smell of her. At odd moments he thought he had heard her laughter, or he'd catch a glimpse of her in the corner of an eye, but all of it was a lie, and every time it happened it was as if someone had ripped a deep wound in his chest. The pain was raw enough to make him want to take a razor to his wrist, but each time he considered acting upon the idea something stopped him, and so, he stumbled on barely alive and wishing for an end. At times he couldn't breathe, couldn't move without wanting to scream.”

Love Death Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Death Of A Loved One Bereavement

Book:Of Blood and Honey

Source: Of Blood and Honey

“In twenty years you could say and do a lot you wish you hadn't. In twenty years you could store up a lot of regrets. And then, when it was too late, when there was no one left to say "I'm sorry" to, "I didn't mean it" to, you could stop sleeping for regret, stop eating, talking, working, for regret. You could stop wanting to live. You could want to die for regret. It was only remembering the good times that kept you from taking the knife from the kitchen drawer and, holding it so, tightly in your fist, on the bed, naked to no purpose except that that was how you came into the world and how your best moments in the world had been spent--holding it so, roll onto the blade, slowly so that it slid like love between your ribs and into that stupidly pumping muscle in your chest that kept you regretting.”

Love Loss Grief Regret Grieving Death Of A Loved One

Book:Fadeout

Source: Fadeout

“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”

“And I realized that a death in the family wasn’t permanent—that a new life could replace an old life, and that the world moved on. Families moved on.”

Death Family Grieving

Book:The Suicide Journal

Source: The Suicide Journal

“He was like the other half of myself,' says Boris...Ulrich says, 'You haven't lost {him}, you know. I don't know if it helps to say that. I lost a friend once myself, and I know how it goes. 'He'll find his way inside you, and you'll carry him onward. Behind your heartbeat, you'll hear another one, faint and out of step. People will say you are speaking his opinons, or your hair has turned like his. 'There are no more facts about him -- that part is over. Now is the time for essential things...Gradually you'll grow older than him, and love him as your son. 'You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.”

Love Friendship Grief Devotion Grieving Connection Missing Someone Kindred Spirits

Book:Solo

Source: Solo

“Acceptance isn’t forgetting, and it isn’t ignoring that that person was really fucking special to you. It’s simply being present in your current reality. And understanding that it’s totally okay to move on.”

Death Acceptance Grieving

Book:Hardcore Grief Recovery: An Honest Guide to Getting through Grief without the Condolences, Sympathy, and Other BS

Source: Hardcore Grief Recovery: An Honest Guide to Getting through Grief without the Condolences, Sympathy, and Other BS

“When you love someone, but don't like parts of them, it complicates your memories of them when they're gone.”

Grief Grieving Grief And Loss

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“I think the important thing to realize, to try and remember, is that grief doesn't have a rule book. You're allowed to feel every emotion under the sun. You're even allowed to invent new ones. I think I've done that a few times”

Grief Grieving

Book:Horrid

Source: Horrid

“Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him.”

Loss Grief Grieving Fathers And Sons

Book:The Godsend

Source: The Godsend

“Insisting that life stay the same post-loss is essentially the same as saying, “Let’s just pretend this never happened.” That’s an incredible disservice to the person, place, or thing that you lost. Did you love what you lost? If you didn’t love it, was it important, significant, influential, or a large chunk of your life? Did you have hopes, dreams, or expectations attached to it? Then it’s worth grieving its loss. And that loss will change your identity on some level.”

Love Life Loss Grief Identity Grieving Grief And Loss Bereavement

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

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