3,968 Quotes About Grief

A grieving process alongside career change is perfectly normal. The key is to accepting resistance and anticipating it instead of trying to avoid or demonise it. Resistance is a natural part of any transition.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.

Love does not always end well.

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

Loss is an inevitable part of change.

This is another awful truth of losing people you love: everyone needs something different. And the needs almost never match up.

Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.

We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.