Recovery From Grief Quotes

#1. In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. Nor

Christopher Priest

#2. Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.

Drew Myron

#3. Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.

Marya Hornbacher

#4. In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.

Anna White

#5. Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

G. Norman Lippert

#6. The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.

Catfish Hunter

#7. Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Carolyn Wells

#8. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Christopher Dines

#9. A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

James Agee

#10. Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.

Christopher Dines

#11. Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own.

Kirk DeMatas

#12. I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

Florence Welch

#13. Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#14. But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, Majella!

Helen Hunt Jackson

#15. It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#16. I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.

Anna White

#17. He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

Patrick Ness

#18. Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.

Dan Chaon

#19. 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

#20. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer

#21. It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers.

Simon Schama