Grief Quotes - Page 17

Who were these people? Where was all this joy, and where does joy go when it leaves your family? Does it go into someone else's family, soak into the earth, or does it dissolve away like your breath in the winter? And if it doesn't leave like this, then why isn't there any left for me?

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

I have a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me.

There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.

I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.

He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.

It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.