Once Again All Smiles After Such a Harsh Month

Hither are 64 (Shhh! There are actually 63) quotes about grief, coping and life after loss. Although we love a good grief quote, Litsa and I were slow to join in on the quote-pic phenomenon.  The Internet just seemed plastered with inspirational platitudes pasted on pictures of sunsets and rainbows. Information technology all seemed and then trite and reductive we decided not to add to the dissonance.  Then we got over ourselves.   A expert quote serves many purposes.  A quote helps united states of america put our own thoughts and feelings into perspective, it allows us to use the words of others to communicate or to convey a message, and it helps united states to feel a sense of commonality when nosotros find our feelings, experiences, and observations match those of some other. We promise something here resonates with you and feel free to steal and share any of these images with your grieving family and friends.

"The times you lot lived through, the people y'all shared those times with; Nix brings it all to life like an erstwhile mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add upwards to the story of a life."

~ Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Record

"To live in hearts we leave backside is non to die."

~ Thomas Campbell

"When I recall of death, and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the thought that a day will dawn when I no longer exist among those living in this valley of strange humors.

I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to take the death of anyone else.

I find it impossible to let a friend or relative go into that country to no render.

Disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows in its wake.

I answer the heroic question 'Expiry, where is thy sting?' with 'It is hither in my heart and mind and memories.'"

~ Maya Angelou, When I Call up of Death

"At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, nosotros remember them."

~ Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer

"Do you not know that a human is not expressionless while his proper noun is notwithstanding spoken?"

~ Terry Pratchett

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting get and holding on."

~ Havelock Ellis

"God gave u.s.a. memory so that we might have roses in December."

~ J.M. Barrie

"Information technology'southward so curious; Ane tin can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes y'all a friendly sign backside a window, or 1 notices that a flower that was in bud merely yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter of the alphabet slips from a drawer… and everything collapses."

~ Colette

"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle and a very happy commencement."

~ Shel Silverstein, Every Thing On It

"Should yous shield the valleys from the windstorms, yous would never run across the beauty of their canyons."

~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and y'all'll never walk alone."

~ Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel

"On this bald hill the new year hones its border.

Faceless and pale as china

The circular heaven goes on minding its business.

Your absence is inconspicuous,

Nobody can tell what I lack."

~ Sylvia Plath, Parliament Hill Fields

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A kid or a book or a painting or a firm or a wall congenital of a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that blossom you planted, y'all're there."

~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"When nosotros have joy we crave to share; We remember them."

~ Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer

"Brand the near of your regrets; Never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it 'til information technology comes to take a split up and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"I'll be seeing y'all

In all the former familiar places

That this heart of mine embraces

All day through."

~ Billie Holiday, I'll Be Seeing Y'all

"One more day

One more than time

1 more dusk, perhaps I'd be satisfied

But then again

I know what it would practice

Leave me wishing nevertheless, for ane more day with you."

~ Diamond Rio

"You gave me a forever within the numbered days…"

~ John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

"I would e'er expect for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would ever search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, 'Look: She existed.'"

~ Meghan O'Rourke, Story'south End

"14 years.

My longest relationship.

My only experience of maternal love.

My constant companon.

My best friend.

Duck."

~ Sarah Silverman on her domestic dog, Duck

"Where yous used to exist,

there is a pigsty in the world,

which I observe myself constantly walking around in the daytime,

and falling in at night.

I miss you similar hell."

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Look closely and you will run across almost everyone carrying bags of cement on their shoulders.

That'south why it takes backbone to go out of bed in the morning and climb into the mean solar day."

~ Edward Hirsch

"Losing my mother at such an early historic period is the scar of my soul. Just I feel similar it ultimately fabricated me into the person I am today. I sympathize the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here."

~ Mariska Hargity

"My male parent didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and permit me sentinel him do it."

~ Clarence Budington Kelland

"No one ever told me that grief felt and so like fear."

~ C.South. Lewis

"Ain't no shame in property on to grief… as long every bit you brand room for other things also."

~ "Bubbles," The Wire

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and brand it a sharer in her thoughts."

~ George Eliot

"The holiest of holidays are those kept past ourselves in silence and autonomously: The secret anniversaries of the heart."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When a child dies, you coffin the child in your center."

~ Korean Proverb

"If I die before you lot

which is all but certain

and then in the moment

before you lot will run into me

become someone dead

in a transformation

as quick every bit a shooting star's

I volition cross over into you

and ask yous to carry

not but your ain memories

but mine too until you

too lie downward and erase the states

both together into oblivion."

~ Galway Kinnell

"It's coming on Christmas

They're cutting downward trees

They're putting upwards reindeer

And singing songs of joy and peace

Oh I wish I had a river I could skate abroad on."

~ Joni Mitchell

"Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the yr to come,

Whispering 'It will be happier'…"

~ Alfred Tennyson

"When our days get dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let united states remember that in that location is a creative strength in this universe, working to pull downward the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to brand a style out of no way and transform night yesterdays into bright tomorrows."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you die, information technology does not mean that you lot lose to cancer. You beat out cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which y'all alive."

~ Stuart Scott

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your existence, the more joy yous can comprise."

~ Khalil Gibran

"Grief sucks."

~ Anybody Always

"It takes strength to make your fashion through grief, to grab hold of life and permit information technology pull you forward."

~ Patti Davis

"The healing power of even the almost microscopic substitution with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking almost because she experienced that thing as well cannot be overestimated."

~ Cheryl Strayed

"What separates u.s.a. from animals, what separates usa from the chaos, is our power to mourn people we've never met."

~ David Levithan

"Anytime soon, we all will be together

If the fates let

Until then,

Nosotros'll take to muddle through somehow."

"No homo ever steps in the same river twice, for it Is not the same river and he is not the same man."

~ Heraclitus

"Next person that minimizes my grief is getting a swift kick to the shin."

"Well, every 1 can master a grief merely he that has it."

~ William Shakespeare

"So when you need her touch

And loving gaze

Gone but not forgotten

Is the perfect phrase

Smiling from a star

That she makes glow

Trust she's always in that location

Watching as you lot grow

Find her in the place

Where the lost things go."

~ The Place Where Lost Things Go, Mary Poppin Returns

"If at that place always comes a mean solar day where nosotros tin't be together, keep me in your middle. I'll stay at that place forever."

~ A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what yous dearest."

~ Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlett Leaves

"Her absence is like the heaven, spread over everything."

~ C.Southward. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I will not say: Practise not week; For not all tears are evil."

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

"The reality is that y'all volition grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved i; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole over again only you will never be the same. Nor should yous be the same nor would you want to."

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

"Give the sorrow words; the grief that does non speak knits upward the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"The song is ended, only the tune lingers on."

~ Irving Berlin

"When he shall die,

Accept him and cutting him out in fiddling stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine,

That all the earth will be in love with nighttime,

And pay no worship to the garish sun."

~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the ane ends, and where the other begins?"

~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Sometimes, merely 1 personn is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

~ Alphonse de Lamartine, Méditations Poétiques

"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with u.s.."

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal beliefs."

~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man'southward Search for Pregnant

"Death ends a life, not a human relationship."

~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"But there was no need to exist ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer."

~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man'due south Search for Significant

"They that love across the world cannot be separated by it. Expiry cannot impale what never dies."

~ William Penn

"Life has to end.

Love doesn't."

~ Mitch Albom, The Five People Y'all See in Heaven

"And once the storm is over you won't think you how made it through, how yous managed to survive. You won't fifty-fifty exist sure, in fact, whether the tempest is really over. Merely ane thing is sure. When you come out of the tempest you lot won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm'due south all about."

~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we beloved securely becomes part of united states of america."

~ Helen Keller

Feb 10, 2015

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