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#1

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

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#2

“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

tags: bereavement, grief

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#3

“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 David Kessler

tags: grief, grieving

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#4

“Though these words will never find you, I hope that you knew I was thinking of you today….. and that I was wishing you every happiness.
Love Always,
The girl you loved once.”
― Ranata Suzuki

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#5

“I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

tags: grief, grieving

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#6

“Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: comofirt, difficulties, grief, hardships, holding-hands, life, richelle, richelle-goodrich, security, trials

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#7

“I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.”
― Victoria Hanley, The Seer and the Sword

tags: death, grief, mourning, queen

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#8

“Grief is love turned into an eternal missing”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

tags: death, grief, love

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#9

“You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you”
― Darien Gee, Friendship Bread

tags: grief, love, relationships

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#10

“But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.”
― Cathy Lamb, The First Day of the Rest of My Life

tags: grief

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#11

“I know you want to run from it, to pretend it doesn't exist... but that won't make it go away, August. Grief isn't the villain. It just wants to help you remember that despite losing someone, despite the sadness and heartache and pain... there was also once love.”
― I.V. Marie, Immortal Consequences

tags: grief, healing, heartache, loss, love-absence, pain, sadness

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#12

“Grief is not a weakness. It is a portal to healing, a bridge between the seen and unseen, and a sacred act of remembering.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

tags: compassion, grief, healing, meaning, mindfulness, remembrance, resilience, ritual, sacred, spirituality

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#13

“In truth, nothing and no one is ever lost. The forms we love change shape, but the life within them remains. When we see that clearly, death — our own or a loved one — becomes a graced opportunity to know that life does not and cannot end.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

tags: beliefs, consciousness, death, grief, higher-awareness, perception, presence, reality, self-realisation, transformation

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#14

“We are who we love. A part of us leaves with the ones that go, pieces ripped from us in the worst ways, but part of them stays with us as well.”
― Tonia Laird, Seventhblade

tags: grief, loss, meaning

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#15

“There should be a word for the ability to stop crying about a past pain even though it's still in you. There should be a word for living.

Yes, that's it. There should be a word for continuing to live when a part of you has died. There should be a word that sums that up. And the longer you live, the more that word should become a part of you. Because the thing of it is, every day that the person is missed feels longer and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing you can do to share the long, beautiful days which they are not a part of.”
― Jason Mott, People Like Us

tags: grief, grief-and-loss

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#16

“I think when somebody lives in your head and in your heart for a long time, you carry them around when their body is gone.”
― Bob Weir

tags: death, grief, loss, mourning, remembrance

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#17

“Grief doesn’t end; it changes shape and travels with you.”
― Vikki Espinosa, One in Eight: A Breast Cancer Journey and Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Workplaces

tags: grief, healing, loss, mental-health

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#18

“Her death had crushed my heart and all I wanted to do was burrow and hide, to be solitarily numb. Yet the more I burrowed, the more she was there — inside my brain, inside my soul.”
― Frank Fitzpatrick, Resting in My Soul: Tracing Threads of Myth and Memory

tags: grief, loss, love, mourning

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#19

“Grief is the price we pay for deep love.”
― selena mark

tags: comfort, coping, emotional, grief, healing, inspirational, loss, love, sadness, strength

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#20

“as I gazed up

at the full moon rising through the trees and wondered how

another month had passed, and I said out loud to that

satellite—that desolate rock that does nothing but

orbit and reflect light and drive the tides—-I said look

how far I have come, I am still here, I have survived

the worst of it, I woke up laughing last night, when was

the last time that happened, and when the moon answered back

with its wild silence I realized too late I was

never talking to the moon at all, that when I speak

to an empty place, I am always speaking to you.”
― Jennifer Perrine

tags: death, grief, loss, moon, mourning, poem, poetry, survival

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#21

“Grief isn’t linear.
It comes in waves. Some are tsunamis—early on, most of them are. They knock your legs away again and again and again. You never have time to get back to your feet. Over time, the waves get smaller. It doesn’t get easier, just more manageable—but right after you lose someone, where you’re learning your new reality without them in it, it’s like being on the beach as a little kid, and you see the water coming, and you know that no matter what you do, you can’t get out of the way in time.
What people don’t tell you is that sometimes, the waves can get real big again for no reason. They come out of nowhere and steal your breath, and it hurts just as bad, even after years. Decades.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

tags: grief, grief-and-healing, grief-and-loss, healing, mental-health

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#22

“Grief is not the absence of love — it is the echo of love still longing to be expressed.
— Henry, trueYou Media”
― TrueYou Media

tags: grief, healing, love, pet-loss

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#23

“In the storm of grief, love becomes the lighthouse — steady, quiet, always shining.
— Henry, trueYou Media”
― TrueYou Media

tags: grief, grief-support, grieving-hearts, healing

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#24

“Grief does not end.
It shifts.
It softens, vanishes, returns.
It curls up in your ribs
and then startles you awake.

The one who walks the Way
does not wait for a clean horizon.
They walk without needing to finish.
They rest without shame.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Grief

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, tao, taoism, the-way

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#25

“Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn’t quite setting? That’s the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: cult-following, falling-in-love, grief, grief-and-loss, school-life, young-adult

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#26

“You don’t get over love. Loving someone and being loved in return leaves an indelible imprint on your brain. It cannot be erased, because love can’t be taken away, can’t be taken back, even if our person is no longer with us in this world.”
― Marisa Renee Lee, Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

tags: grief, loss, love

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#27

“letting go is not a single moment
it's a thousand small choices, a quiet undoing
of the knots that held you in place
letting go is not forgetting
it's remembering and choosing
to move forward anyway”
― Andrea E. Davis, Prisoner

tags: grief, healing, heartbreak, loss, love, moving-on, relationships

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#28

“Grief becomes a part of who we are. It doesn't define us entirely, but it shapes the way we see the world. Over time, we learn to live with the pain—not because it lessens, but because we expand our capacity to endure it. This is the journey of healing through grief: not erasing the hurt, but finding a way to coexist with it.”
― Carson Anekeya

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes

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#29

“Grief cannot be fixed because it is not a problem to solve; it is a deep emotional response to loss. The idea of 'healing' from grief often feels inadequate because it suggests an end point, a time when the pain will disappear. But the truth is, we don't heal from grief in the traditional sense. Instead, we heal through grief. We allow ourselves to feel the waves of sorrow, to confront the emptiness, and to adapt to life without the person we have lost.”
― Carson Anekeya

tags: death-and-dying, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, loss

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#30

“When someone dies, you start counting all the ways you failed them”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

tags: death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, grief

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