“I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 106 of 132
“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”
“Without thinking, I grab Al's arm and squeeze it as tightly as I can. I just need something to hold on to. Blood runs down the side of Christina's face and splatters on the ground next to her cheek. This is the first time I have ever prayed for someone to fall unconscious.... Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side. I clench my teeth to keep from crying out.”
“Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”
“But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.”
“I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you”
“A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.”
“Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.”
“I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it falls apart." I am crying now, but I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love is really that feeble.”
“In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.”
“Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.”
“It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”
“That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.”
“Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.”
“There is no way forward that isn’t through pain.”
“Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.”
“The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.”
“Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.”
“Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.”
“If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”