10 quotes about grief and loss
These are some of our favorite quotes and we thought we would share it with you and maybe they will do the same for you as they did for us.
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
We all have that one person in our lives that we are so afraid to lose, and maybe you already lost them or maybe you feel that that moment will come sooner or later. But look past that, look at all the beautiful memories you made together, all the impact that they had in your life. Yes, it is very hard to say goodbye but how lucky are we to have someone that we love deeply.
“Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”
The act of losing the person we love does not have to mean that we lost them forever. They are still very present in our lives, we often find ourselves looking back at all the memories we created with them and in that place you are not apart, you are together. They accompany us every day.
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.”
You need to allow yourself to feel the pain, the anger, all those feelings that come with grieving. Don’t be afraid, you will not forget them. That will never happen, they will forever be a part of you.
“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
At some point in our lives we all go through a loss. That is the way of life, it may not be fair but it is also beautiful at the same time. So do not hold your grieving back, do not hide it. It is normal to feel what you feel.
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
The love that we give, the love that we have for the one we lost, it never ceases to exist. That is why they will alway be in your heart, so hold on to them tight.
"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers and I will do it for the both of us."
The best thing you can do in order to keep them alive, is to keep them with you. Do the things that you loved to do together, laugh, cry, take adventures, keep on living for the both of you. Do all of these things and never forget them.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
Think of all those moments of pure happiness you had and then be grateful for them, because they chose you to experience all those beautiful moments together. And you will be so bold to cry because it happened, not because it's over.
"People touch our lives if only for a moment, and yet we're not the same from that moment on, the time is not important, the moment is forever."
Cherish that moment like a treasure, hold it in your heart forever and you will never be left without it. Time can not steal the moments that you had and still have.
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
This is a more positive way to look at grief and the loss of a loved one. You can choose to look at grief as something that brings just sadness and pain or you can look at it as something that knits your heart closer to the ones that go through this process with you.