Grieving Quotes

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

~ Ranata Suzuki

How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back…All those years I spent unhappy with him …. when I should have been looking for you.

~ Ranata Suzuki

In a way, it was the same as any normal break up. You took what was yours …. and I kept what I’d had from before we were together…You took my heart …. and I had nothing…

~ Ranata Suzuki

They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth – The cold, hard, undeniable truth.Not letting go doesn’t keep him with you.It’s still over. He’s still gone.… And nothing will ever change that.

~ Ranata Suzuki

Perhaps I was easier to shake off for you because you’re such a together person. I was just an extra layer on the outside… like a blanket you could shrug off and feel just the same…. except maybe a little colder….But I was always a broken person that was haphazardly held together by little more than my own strength. And so you just seeped in the cracks and mingled with my insides until you became an inseparable part of me. And as painful as that is, it still kind of warms me to know I will always carry a part of you with me.

~ Ranata Suzuki

It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.

~ Ranata Suzuki

Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.

~ Ranata Suzuki

I don’t think you ever really understood….…. All the love I had in the world went to you.

~ Ranata Suzuki

How many times did we pass each other before we met? If only I’d known…. I would have searched for you endlessly.If only I’d found you before it was already too late.

~ Ranata Suzuki

When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore.I was just me.I was whole again.I was just a person – like everyone else.

~ Ranata Suzuki

With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything.It was as if I was on top of the world and even the stars themselves were just within my grasp.But without you …. even getting through the day is hard.

~ Ranata Suzuki

I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.

~ Ranata Suzuki

Our parting was like a stalemate….Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.

~ Ranata Suzuki

Though I never really had you….… to me you will always be the one that got away.

~ Ranata Suzuki

You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.

~ Ranata Suzuki

You can miss places. You can miss people.Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even if you could go there again…. see them again…. you can’t go back.They’re not the same.You’re not the same.The loss of them changed you.

~ Ranata Suzuki

If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it.You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.How can you?He has it.

~ Ranata Suzuki

I didn’t love you to seek revenge.I didn’t love you out of loneliness or unhappiness.I didn’t love you for any of the misguided reasons that time might convince you I did.I just loved you because you’re you.

~ Ranata Suzuki

It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….….. and you’ll erase me completely.

~ Ranata Suzuki

I try to do something positive – I socialise more…But deep down I know the truth.An entire world of people can never replace the one that I’ve lost.

~ Ranata Suzuki

It’s just never going to get any easier is it. It’s never going away, this missing you. It’s going to become a sadness I incorporate into myself – along with all the other sadnesses – and quietly carry around with me forever…

~ Ranata Suzuki

I still think of you every day.But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.

~ Ranata Suzuki

There’s only ever been one person I’ve looked at and thought…‘I could quite easily spend the entire rest of my life with that man’.And sooner or later I need to accept that he’s spending it with somebody else.

~ Ranata Suzuki

How do you love someone and just… walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that? How can you be okay with that?

~ Ranata Suzuki

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these kinds of tragic events. Those platitudes are tempting, but they're nothing but luxuries for people who've never had demons (or at least have never admitted to them). But equally, she would reject nihilism, or the idea that there is no real meaning in life or death - ideas present in so much of postmodernity. Those ideas, too, are luxuries, but they are for those who have never been freed from demons.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

~ Sandra M. Gilbert

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

~ Germany Kent

Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours.

~ Radhika Mundra

Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.

~ Didier Anzieu

from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

~ Margaret Atwood

On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

~ Nikki Rowe

In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

~ Natalie Brenner

From a medical standpoint, the third and the most probable explanation is that Jesus was indeed dead, and what his disciples experienced were mere hallucinations evoked by the grief over the loss of their beloved teacher. It is clinically known as “Post-Bereavement Hallucinations Experiences” or PBHE.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

~ Sheldon Vanauken

If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion.

~ William Shakespeare

Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

~ Cindee Snider Re