C. S. Lewis Quotes

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

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

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.

There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.