“Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.” FirstsEyeMemoriesGriefDogTearsMoonNotesWaveSunlightSleepersJinglesDog FoodSaboteurs Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.” IfsLongEnoughBigsMovingLeftStarsWaterMemoriesGriefBehindsHugeLong TimeShiningEndureCalmWaveMoving ForwardBoatKeep MovingBehind YouSwamps Author:Jimmy Buffett
“From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.” NeedsThreeMemoriesPerfectGriefOne ThingRemainsCups Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'” PeopleYearsDoeSeemsTogetherCertainFatherMemoriesGriefDadLosingEssenceWaveBonesDevotionIntimateOur TimeClosestHis LoveReflectingTime TogetherIntimate RelationshipsOur Time Together Author:Jennifer Grant
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.” MemoriesGriefObjectsAffectionDelightAbsenceImpressionIntensePoignantWidowed Author:James Martineau
“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.” SelfSometimesMemoriesGriefRiskPossibilityLetting GoPainfulVisiting Author:Amy Bloom
“memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.” FirstsSeemsPainMemoriesGriefCurseUnbearableTalismans Author:Gail Caldwell
“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.” KnowsFeelsFirstsMayLittlesI CanTwoMomentsHappensMovingBitsRealizingMemoriesGriefMorningWonderfulWeekDancingMusclesOverwhelmingAfternoonGesturesEvery Morning Author:Mark Doty
“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.” HeartMayPastMovingJoySpeakMemoriesForgetGriefTreeSeaSkyFieldsFlowerBrokenRiversGoldGreenPityUnseenFoldsRippleGleamHeart BrokeMeadGlisten Author:William Morris
“Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.” KnowsMemoriesGriefTearsBlades Author:Claudia Gray