39 Quotes About Loss-of-family

Grief is like the ocean. The waves ebb and flow. Sometimes the water is calm. Other times it's turbulent. In order to survive, I had to learn to swim. In moments when I struggled with massive waves of grief, I rode it out.

Every time you think of your dad, you’reresurrecting him. Why shouldn’t he continue to livein this world while resting in the other?

He sounds so tired. "I know if there was any choice at all, they wouldn't have left me alone. They would have made sure I was taken care of."In a heartbeat, a thousand memories at once. All the times I knew things I couldn't have known. All the times he was assigned to me. "Julian," I say, "maybe they did.

The privilege of living a long life comes at a price -the increasing loss of those we know and love around us.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

The mindset of loss of a loved one is to understand that the loss will never be undone. You must live with it, like it or not. But, to live well, you must turn that loss into something positive. That way, you can become the best version of yourself; scarred, flawed and unstoppable

Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can be no escape of reprieve. You must toil laying down the foundation stones of acceptance, stone by stone, until you have paved your way to your new life.

this loss feels like an ache between my ribs it’s sad and scary but softand steady it’s always there humming loudlybeneath it all beneath it allsometimesit rests andjust whispersssshhhhhhhhit only takes one moment of missing you to make it roar

She was all that I knew, all that was dear. I'd loved her and she'd loved me. Now I was alone in the world. How would I do without her? My thoughts echoed the landlady: What would become of me?