Lord Byron Quotes

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

You rarely hear women crying in Grozney. They have cried their eyes out long ago.

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?

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

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

I think that time heals all.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

We were not made to eternally weep.