Khaled Hosseini Quotes

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

You don't have to move on to let go.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.