“Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 38 of 132
“For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.”
“Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.”
“Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.”
“I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.”
“Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.”
“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
“Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.”
“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”
“Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.”
“Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.”
“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
“You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.”
“I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.”
“The big change is the proximity to death.”
“I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.”
“People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again”
“The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”
“When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.”