Dealing With Loss Quotes

“I don't think, for instance, that you can invoke a Protestant ethic when it comes to loss. You can't say, "Oh, I'll go through loss this way, and that will be the result, and I'll apply myself to the aks, and I'll endeavor to achieve the resolution of grief that is before me." I think that one is hit by waves, and that one starts out the day with an aim, a project, a plan, and one finds oneself foiled.”
― Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

“she is always here; in the sparkle of your eyes, in the beating of your heart, you can hear her voice in the whisper of the wind and the tap trickle of the rain. She is where you are.”
― Nastasia Botha, Growing Hope Anthology

“What are we to do in this time? How do we function? How do we not completely lose it?

I choose to use my #pen
to cut open my shell
to release the pus
of pain and trauma
and loss
mixed with
sludge-like #ash.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems