These are just a few quotes on grief. I believe I’ve told you before that I’m a quote collector. I thought I would share a few. I will only share these few today – because grief is heavy, and one can only manage it in snippets, moments because you suddenly realize it’s time to take in another breath. Grief makes you realize that for all of your days before your loss, you took breaths for granted. They come in, and they go out. Now, there’s an effort to it. It sits on the outside until you remember it has to be taken in again. Afterward, it bellows out in a deep sigh.
So for today just a few.
For in grief nothing “stays put.” One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
But if a spiral, am I going up or down it?
How often — will it be for always? — how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, “I never realized my loss till this moment”? The same leg is cut off time after time.
C.S. Lewis
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.
Abraham Lincoln
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; 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 again, but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler
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
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