Losing A Loved One Quotes

I learned that victims come in all image – some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail’s response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, “My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Sorrow makes us all children again –
destroys all differences of intellect.
The wisest know nothing.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

You have to start over. That’s what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really “starting over.” More like “continuing without.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

My reward is just to be a better man. You’re so close to losing a loved one … the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.