Samuel Johnson Quotes

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

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.

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

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.

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

Grief is a process, not a state.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write a lot of records on one broken heart.

I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.