686 Quotes About Grief-and-loss
- Author Shelby Forsythia
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Sitting next to grief and allowing it to root through your former life while slowly unfurling into your new life requires the kind of patience, gentleness, and self-love that many of us have never had to summon before. Remember that at its core, permission is about telling the truth about where you are right now. And sometimes that truth means saying, “I don’t know.
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- Author Shelby Forsythia
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you can’t skip the uncertainty of not knowing who you are. You can’t skip the reality of having an uncertain identity. It’s often the hardest part of grief, because unlike shifting feelings that can resolve themselves in minutes or hours, shifting identities can take years to resolve. Sometimes who you are is “suspended” for a very long time before you feel like you’ve found solid footing again.
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- Author Alison Wertheimer
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In most cases, suicide is a solitary event and yet it has often far-reaching repercussions for many others. It is rather like throwing a stone into a pond; the ripples spread and spread.
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- Author Eden Tijerina
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By and by, an umber horizon begins to glow, displacing the moonlight. I close my eyes facing it. I see your crashing instruments, your secular declarations, every shameful nadir somehow lower than the one before. All of the lostness and madness braided together, a cord inexorably straining towards the night you silenced the whole world.
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- Author Huma Zuellah Ahmed
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Nothing has the power to hold you in the state of pain except your own self.
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- Author Lily King
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I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall.
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- Author V.C. Andrews
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Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.
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- Author Darlene Lancer
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Loss of a relationship is painful, but if you lose yourself in a relationship, when it ends, it's devastating, because you are lost.
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- Author Ivy Oakes
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Your mother buried me a long time ago and believed me when I say that I cried and still cry for this death every day.
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