“When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 125 of 132
“You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on”
“Forgetting is the mind's way of helping you heal. Helping you move on.”
“You don't ever really let go, though. You don't stop. You don't stop hurting, you don't stop loving. It doesn't go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it's not consuming you every day. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And then one day you know you're okay.”
“I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.”
“In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.”
“Sacrifice life to truth.”
“...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave”
“Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.”
“I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.”
“I was acting my way through the whole thing.”
“And my little sister died when she was 16.”
“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.”
“I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.”
“Huge events in life inform you in so many ways that you know about and many other ways that you cannot even comprehend. To go through a big experience can have such a profound impact on everything that you do. It's the common thing that everyone says about a tragedy - it is a really tough thing to happen but it is amazing, and a gift, if you can look at the positive aspects that come out and the friendships that are made from the people that provided help and support.”
“My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.”
“Death, thou shalt die.”
“All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.”
“Sleep is pain's easiest salve”
“I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!”