C. S. Lewis Quotes

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.

Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Losing someone you love is tough.