“Illness affects everybody and alters relationships. When we receive grim medical news regarding a loved one, whom do we cry for first, for the injured party or for our own loss? The closer an ill person is to us, the more difficult it is to view their plight primarily in terms of their own misfortune. When a person we love suffers, we suffer as a collective group; we each bear part of the emotional pain.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“For no soul can ever be replaced, and death claims a beauty and a magnificence that will always be missed.”
― In Your Hour Of Grief: When Mourning the Death of a Loved One
― In Your Hour Of Grief: When Mourning the Death of a Loved One
“If you sense the tide of grief welling up in you, treat it like the sacred emotion it is, and honor it. Give yourself time to sink into it, allow it to immobilize you with its weight, and trust that it will flow through you and out - if you let it. Grief truly felt never lasts forever - only grief avoided does.”
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“But I guess death is like that. It takes away from you in an instant the people you've cherished for a whole lifetime. Just like that. As simple as that. And you are suddenly left with two things: anger for having been deprived of your beloved for no reason at all; and emptiness, a vacuum that gnaws right at your heart where all the joyful moments once had been.”
― In Your Hour Of Grief: When Mourning the Death of a Loved One
― In Your Hour Of Grief: When Mourning the Death of a Loved One
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