3,968 Quotes About Grief

Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief.

He leaves me alone in my grief because I've made it so hard for him to console me.

I don’t talk about my mom often. Whenever I do, my heart hurts in a way that nothing can really help. Like there’s this hole drilled into the center of my soul, an unending pit that keeps going and going, tempting me to fall in and get lost in the echo of who she was. Because she’s gone now.

But after two months had passed, time, work, and friendship brought Aubrey to a place where it was possible to hurt, and to laugh, in the same day. He never would’ve guessed he could.

Guilt is a little like grief. A cancer of the soul. They both hollow you out from the inside. But while you can learn to live with grief, guilt only grows as the years go by, spreading its tumorous tentacles.[the Rev. Jack Brooks]

哀痛是極其私人的感受，如指紋般人人不同，悲傷的歷程既沒有準則，也無法按表操課。

哀傷的最佳取代品是強健的體魄。

事實上，哀傷不像一直線，可以輕易從一個階段進入下一個階段，比較像是神經兮兮的蜜蜂的飛行計劃，這一刻你悲傷喪氣，下一刻憤怒難平，再下一刻平靜接受，哀傷將帶你穿越各種情緒，弄得你身心俱疲。我將哀傷比喻成海嘯的巨浪，以無比強大的力量冷不防將你捲起，翻天浪濤使你看不到岸，呼吸不到空氣。無論多努力對抗海潮也無濟於事，只能隨波逐流，自己撐住。哀傷時刻的到來既沒有順序，也不會徵得你的同意。

哀傷的反應方式並無所謂對錯，你的反應是根據你過去和目前的生活狀況、你的個性，以及身體處理壓力的能力，絕不是根據你和落失的所愛之人之間的感情。別讓外人的眼光成為你內心的實像，你的反應只屬於你自己，你的情緒與哀傷不應該接受公開檢視。