“If grief were a force of nature it would be the sea, that rose and rose higher like waves, each blow leaving you breathless, each wave greater than the last, hitting you quicker than youContinue reading
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Grief Quote
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futuresContinue reading
Grief Quote
They say time heals all wounds, but I disagree. Grief never ends, it just changes. You learn how to live with it, rebuild yourself from the shattered pieces around you until you’re whole again, butContinue reading
Grief Journey Quote
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 throughContinue reading
Grief Quote
People talk about the pain of grief, but I don’t know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.~Veronica Roth
Grief Poem
A Thousand times we needed you.A thousand times we cried.If love alone could have saved you,you never would have died.A heart of gold stopped beating;two twinkling eyes closed to rest.God broke our hearts to proveheContinue reading
Tears Shed Over Graves Quote
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.~Harriet Beecher Stowe
Speaking of Loss Quote
Sometimes, with the best of intentions, friends don’t know how to help. They may feel that to bring up the subject of our loss is to risk making us feel worse, so they avoid it,Continue reading
Helen Keller Quote
What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.~Helen Keller
Grief Quote
All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worthContinue reading
Oprah Winfrey Quote
I did have a son. And I named him Canaan because it means new land, new life. When I lost him 2 weeks after he was born I buried all of my feelings about it.Continue reading
Kelly Preston Quote
I’ve had an enormous loss. Nobody should have to lose a child. It’s unfathomable. But I’m here to say that you can get through it. You can live again. You can want to live again…~KellyContinue reading
Abraham Lincoln Quote
My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so. It is hard, hardContinue reading
Wounds Quote
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.~Laurell K. Hamilton
Grief Quote
Grief is a journey, often perilous and without clear direction. The experience of grieving cannot be ordered or categorized, hurried or controlled, pushed aside or ignored indefinitely. It is inevitable as breathing, as change, asContinue reading