grief-quotes

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own.

If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

But in all of the sadness, when you__e feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, You__e got to remember that grief isn__ the absence of love. Grief is the proof that love is still there.

Death will paint everything a different shade of remorse. You__l feel guilty that you__e still breathing. But you can__ stop.You__l feel guilty for wanting to laugh again. And it will be awful the first time that you do. You__l feel guilty for just about everything at first.And someday, at some point, you__l start to feel guilty . . . for forgetting to feel guilty.But of all Heaven__ lessons, guilt isn__ one of them. You don__ need to hold on to it. It doesn__ need to be a practice and it shouldn__ be your life. Heaven would never approve of your guilt.Because Heaven has no regrets.

It__ okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it__ vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from loss__erhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learning to cherish alone the things they__ cherished together.She belonged instead to the sad lot who clung to grief, who nurtured it by never moving beyond it. They__ shelter it deep inside where the years padded it in saudade layers like some malignant pearl.

He had not been sleeping well over Christmas. Actually, he hadn__ been doing anything well over Christmas _ eating, sleeping, exercising, talking, looking after himself, laughing, crying_ No, he hadn__ really been crying despite all the pain he felt. It was just tearing him up inside, quietly. It was like his insides were being ripped up by an angered tiger.

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.