Grief Recovery Quotes

“You never do fully recover “You.” You will never have another relationship exactly like the one we had. You will become more for the loss of me and you will move forward into a New You. The You I helped you to become. All you can do now is to begin to create the beautiful New You that has been born from your love and from your loss.”
― Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

“Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.
Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost…”
― Robert Chodo Campbell

“The best gift you can give yourself is to be emotionally complete"
- Tony Miller”
― Tony Miller

“Whatever the Struggle/Continue the Climb/It May Be Only One Step to the Summit”
― Alicia Kay Lanier, My Unspeakable Loss: A Birthmother's Memoir About Adoption Secrecy

“Grief is a ghost that shows up uninvited.”
― Brittany Burgunder