Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

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.

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal.

I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

It is a very vulnerable feeling to lose something very close to your heart or someone very dear to you.

Grief dares us to love once more.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you haven't, but that's part of life.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

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

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

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've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

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

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.