Recovery From Grief Quotes

“This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms
the diseased slums of a broken heart
into a palace made of psalms and gold.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.”
― Christina Greer, Two-Week Wait: Motherhood Lost and Found

“Nothing you did could have changed anything.
And that being angry and blaming yourself for not being able to control the past or the future is only going to hurt worse. If you keep thinking like this, you will only be re-inventing pain.

Heaven would tell you that it’s just a little rain.
And it’s not the rain that kills you,
it’s the pain of wanting to control the sun.”
― Tessa Shaffer, Heaven Has No Regrets

“You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography

“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.”
― Drew Myron, Thin Skin

“If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up.”
― Seth Adam Smith

“Heartache purged layers of baggage I didn’t know I carried. Gifts hide under the layers of grief.”
― Shauna L Hoey

“Hershey Pennsylvania was self-proclaimed as the “Sweetest Place On Earth,” but less advertised than chocolate, it was also home to one of the state’s largest Children’s Hospitals. The streets lined with Hershey Kiss–shaped streetlamps that led excited children and families on vacation to chocolate tour rides and rollercoasters were the same exact streets that led anxious children and families to x-rays and MRIs on the worsts days of their lives.
Chocolate was being created on the same street that childhood diseases were being diagnosed. And that was life. The sweetest of sensations and the deepest of devastations live next door to each other.”
― Tessa Shaffer, Heaven Has No Regrets

“For those struggling with grief, there’s no timetable. It can last months, years, or longer. There is no rush. Give yourself permission to take however long it may be to fully heal from your loss.”
― Dana Arcuri, Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

“You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.”
― G. Norman Lippert, James Potter and the Morrigan Web

“The ashes wail a gut-wrenching cry. They sing out of anguish, for not just the loss of a home. But for all the losses from my life—each singing their own notes.”
― Shauna L Hoey

“Time and quiet, everyone counseled, would help. Best not to mention it. Best not to dwell on it, his mother had said. It was a terrible accident. It must have been hot. Windows were open at the time. And time would heal. Somethings were better left unsaid.”
― Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”
― Carolyn Wells

“You can never forget the person who died. It’s impossible. You can, however, release the pain and remember the deep love. You can continue to love the deceased while living. – Chelsea Hanson, author of The Sudden Loss Survival Guide”
― Chelsea Hanson, The Sudden Loss Survival Guide: Seven Essential Practices for Healing Grief