“Life is tragic simply because the Earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Death is happening to us all.” - Caitlin Doughtyġ8. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, ‘Why do people die?’ and ‘Why is this happening to me?’ Death isn’t happening to you.
“Accepting death doesn’t mean you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.” - Marcel Proustġ7. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power … that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. “Now there is one thing I can tell you: You will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now.
GRIEVING LIFE CHANGES QUOTES FULL
“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” - Orson Scott Cardġ6. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.” - C.S. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope” - Elizabeth Gilbertġ4. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. “Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you…” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéryġ3. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure … And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, ‘Yes, the stars always make me laugh!’ And they will think you are crazy.
“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” - William Shakespeareġ2. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” - E.A.
It was being willing to think about it in a way that was not self-serving.” - Toni Morrisonĩ. Which doesn’t mean you stop feeling the absence. Suddenly realizing that the last thing my son would want was for me to be very self-involved and narcissistic and self-stroking. “People speak to me about my son - ‘I’m so sorry for you’ - but no one says, ‘I loved him so much.’ I was busy in grief, which I don’t expect to stop. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” - Leo TolstoyĨ. “I will not say: Do not weep for not all tears are an evil.” ― J.R.R. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” - Thomas CampbellĦ. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” - Winnie the Poohĥ. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” - J.M. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” - Helen Kellerģ. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” - Elisabeth Kubler-RossĢ. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one you will learn to live with it. “The reality is that you will grieve forever.
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