3,968 Quotes About Grief

What is so dreadful is that to transform the traumatic we must re-enter it fully, and allow the full weight of grief to pass through our hearts. It is not possible to digest atrocity without tasting it first, without assessing on our tongues the full bitterness of it.

Ask yourself this question:If my life is the same five years from now as it is today, would I be OK with that?If the answer is no--or especially if the answer is hell no--then now is the time to do something about it.

The bullet is followed by the silence of the grave, but a wasted youth is followed by years of grief and agonising memories.

For one thing, I was breathing more easily than I had been even yesterday. I was sick to death at the prospect of more suffocatingly lonely nights. The idea that they would be repeated, that was just how life was, made me shudder with horror. Still, having tasted for myself that moment when I suddenly could breathe easy again made my heart beat faster.

People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within, I thought. I had lost my last ounce of strength. Before my eyes something was coming to an end, something I didn’t want to end, but for which I lacked the energy to suffer, much less fight. There was only a leaden hopelessness in me.

Depression ia an experience that seems to come to all people when something or someone they love and treasure dearly is taken away from them. What we must remember about depression is that one day it will pass. Dark days do not last forever.

When something has been terribly important to us for a long time and it is taken from us, we cannot help but be constantly drawn to the lost object. And we suffer daily as we struggle with the gradually dawning realization that it is gone forever.

To work through grief is very hard work.

At the time of great loss, people who have a mature faith give evidence of an uncommon relationship with God. And they demonstrate an uncomon inner sense of strength and poise that grows out of their confidence that such a relationship with God can never be taken away from them.Though we continue to struggle, we do affirm reality.