Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, “I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.” It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learnContinue reading
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Losing a Loved One Quote
When someone you love dies, you don’t just lose them in the present or in the past. You lose the future you should have had, and might have had with them. They are missing fromContinue reading
Poldark Quote
We are taught to be strong, to betray no weakness, but that night I learned to be strong is weakness. Pain should not be avoided. Tears must fall.~Ross Poldark, on the death of his daughterContinue reading
Loss Quote
For just as the swan’s last song is the sweetest of its life, so loss is made endurable by love and it is love that will echo through eternity.~Jenny Lee from “Call the Midwife”
Losing a Loved One Quote
When someone leaves the world, they leave a void; a massive, gaping hole which they alone filled with their once-in-a-history, never-to-be-repeated combination of humor, anger, intelligence.~John Pavlovitz
This Loss Was Mine Quote
Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine and I felt that no one would ever understand it and to try to explain the loneliness and painContinue reading
Bereavement Quote
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.~Iris Murdoch
Losing a Loved One Quote
In the wake of losing a loved one, everything in your life becomes a potential surprise memorial. These seemingly incessant reminders force you once again to observe the loss anew.~John Pavlovitz
Loss Quote
The mind has a dumb sense of vast loss-that is all. It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of theContinue reading
Patti Davis Quote
You can’t rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around — beds, pillows, arms, laps.~Patti Davis
Missing You Quote
I miss you like the sun misses the flowers in the depths of winter, instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world which your absence has banished meContinue reading
Missing You Quote
No matter how long it’s been, there are times when it suddenly becomes harder to breathe. I miss those kisses and the way I used to sleep in your warm hug. I miss the wayContinue reading
Grief Quote
You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is alsoContinue reading