Mary Shelley Quotes

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

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.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

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.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.

I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.'

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.