Grief Quotes - Page 11

My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

It's always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation....Why do men behave the way they do, warring?"
"What do you think?" he asked.
"Maybe because they've got no sense of grief?

It was all death.

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters.

Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping.

Grieving the loss of a loved one - whether human or animal - is not only permissible, it is essential.

It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past.

I can’t help you, I can only guide you, and you are the one who can help yourself.

Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer

To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver.

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!