Ted Dekker Quotes

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

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

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

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

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

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

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

Love is loss combined with pain.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

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.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.