dealing with grief Quotes

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time.

Sorrow can be a bully.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

Lately we have had many losses.

Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.