Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one’s mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.

~ Brent Green

Brent Green Bereavement Death Forgiveness Grief Loss

Our silence about grief serves no one. We can't heal if we can't grieve; we can't forgive if we can't grieve. We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.

~ Brené Brown

Brené Brown Forgiveness Grief Heartbreak

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

~ John Green

John Green Forgiveness Grief Love

I hear the word in the hallover and over again.Suicide.Suicide.Suicide.Did he or didn’t he?Everyone’s got a guess.Still no one knows for sure, except Gabe, but he’s not talking. Why does it even matter? He’s gone. His, ours, theirs— blame needs a place. His, ours, theirs— pain all over the place. His, ours, theirs— forgiveness missing from this place.

~ Lisa Schroeder

Lisa Schroeder Blame Forgiveness Grief Suicide

But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you’re seventeen, there’s time enough for that, but there’s not. There’s no time at all.”I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. “You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi Bereavement Consolation Grief Loss Reincarnation

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

~ Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott Grief Loss Recovery

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

~ John Green

John Green Grief Loss Memory

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.

~ Rachel Hawkins

Rachel Hawkins Grief Loss

Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you missed them last.

~ Kristin O'donnell Tubb

Kristin O'donnell Tubb Death Of A Loved One Grief Loss

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

~ Pat Schweibert

Pat Schweibert Grief Loss Mourning

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?''I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Grief Loss Magic Witchcraft

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

~ James Patterson

James Patterson Bereavement Grief Loss

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Grief Loss

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

~ Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult Grief Loss

There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of wrongful events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates Bereavement Grief Loss

Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...

~ Sanhita Baruah

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I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

~ Peter Heller

Peter Heller Alienation Disassociation Duality Grief Loss Self

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

~ Francine Prose

Francine Prose Grief Loss

One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.

~ Lisi Harrison

Lisi Harrison Crying Grief Hurt Feelings Loss Lost Innocence Sadness Weeping

This time, there are no tears. This time, there is only emptiness and I feel it set in the straight line of my mouth. I am not strong enough for this. I want an earthquake, a hurricane, anything - even a devil, the one with the cloven hoof - Mrs. Leed's unfortunate 13th child - to rush out and stomp on me, break me into little pieces and hurl me to the stars, let me go back with those people I love. Please.

~ Kathleen Demarco

Kathleen Demarco Grief Loss

Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.

~ Linda Hawley

Linda Hawley Grief Loneliness Loss

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

~ Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins Grief Loss

April 11, 2004Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the rules of thought, feeling, and behavior in these circumstances? It seems like there should be a rule book somewhere that lays out everything exactly the way one should respond to a loss like this. I'd surely like to know if I'm doing it right. Am I whining enough or too much? Am I unseemly in my occasional moments of lightheartedness? At what date and I supposed to turn off the emotion and jump back on the treadmill of normalcy? Is there a specific number of days or decades that must pass before I can do something I enjoy without feeling I've betrayed my dearest love? And when, oh when, am I ever really going to believe this has happened? Next time you're in a bookstore, as if there's a rule book.11:54 p.m.Jim

~ Jim Beaver

Jim Beaver Grief Inspirational Life Loss

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving--Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

~ John Irving

John Irving Christmas Grief Loss

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

~ Helen Keller

Helen Keller Bereavement Grief Loss Suffering

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.

~ Barbara Cutie Cooper

Barbara Cutie Cooper Grief Grief Inspirational Grieving Loss Love

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

~ Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall Grief Loss

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

~ Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx Bereavement Grief Loss

Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows of things gone; not just the people themselves but everything connected to them. Was this my future? Every moment, every tiny thing I saw and did and touched, weighted by loss. Every space in this house andmy town and the world in general, empty in a way that could never be filled.

~ Jennifer Castle

Jennifer Castle Bereavement Grief Loss Mourning Tragic Death

Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him.

~ Bernard Taylor

Bernard Taylor Fathers And Sons Grief Grieving Loss

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

~ Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult Grief Loss Sorrow

Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.

~ Steven Rowley

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She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

~ Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys Grief Loss Love Yearning

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

~ Joe L. Wheeler

Joe L. Wheeler Disillusionment Grief Loss Love

The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had forgotten. Surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world.

~ Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald Grief Loss

His thumb went back and forth over the satin, as if he were rubbing her hip as he had when they’d been together, and he moved his leg over so that it was on top of the skirting.It wasn’t the same, though. There was no body underneath, and the fabric smelled like lemons, not her skin. And he was, after all, alone in this room that was not theirs.“God, I miss you,” he said in a voice that cracked. “Every night. Every day…

~ J.r. Ward

J.r. Ward Grief Loss Love

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.

~ Penelope Scambly Schott

Penelope Scambly Schott Grief Loss

The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

~ Hannah Harrington

Hannah Harrington Grief Loneliness Loss

My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.

~ Hannah Harrington

Hannah Harrington Grief Loss
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