32 Quotes About Grief-and-healing

The more voices, the better!

I'm not here to sugar-coat grief. I'm here to be transformed by it.

Nothing has the power to hold you in the state of pain except your own self.

A lot of people are able to turn their grief into something positive. Maybe you’re destined for some kind of job in law enforcement.

The ashes wail a gut-wrenching cry. They sing out of anguish, for not just the loss of a home. But for all the losses from my life—each singing their own notes.

Time possesses emotional potency. For persons whom suffer from of bereavement, time possesses a healing capacity. Passage of time cures heartache by dimming the mind’s attunement to painful occurrences. For some people, the passage of time is akin to placing a welcomed physical boundary between themselves and past horrors. Passage of time allows us to forget and the ability to forget is medicinal. Time acts as a mental barrier between our present mental state and the pain that we once felt.

Hey Gurllll! Introduce me to that bird? Can I have that plant’s number? Could you do my music assignment? Here, hold my beanie. Gotta go, byeee!

We remember the people who show up in our darkest hours.

Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning "to move through" and "to move out". Our emotions move in us, move through us and move between us.And when we allows them to move freely, they change, perhaps scarcely and perhaps gradually - but inevitably.This is grief's most piercing message: there is no way arounf - the only way in through.