4,061 Quotes About Loss

We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.

Only your conscious being is eternally yours. Everything else is bonus. The loss or gain is happening from the bonus.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

I began this process by wondering what it would mean for me to lay Momma to rest. But I did the opposite of laying her to rest—I brought her stories back to life, making her more real to me and less of a stranger. I worked to remember her. I was carrying around her dead body with me before, and now I carry the parts that are alive.

My whole world depended on Momma's. But I'm trying to embrace the present, and I've learned to admire smallness. Some days, I go on car rides with my sisters, and we listen to bouncy music and sing along, off-key, and we laugh as we recall stories from childhood, and I feel free.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

Remember me when I am deadand simplify me when I'm dead.