#grieving

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving. ↗

— Alexandra Fuller

#grief #grieving #africa

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours. ↗

— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#grief-inspirational #grieving #loss #love #experience

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#cloud #england #everyone #grieving #mourning

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#amount #exceed #grieving #him #man

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#go #grieving #had #her #i

Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity--he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find.... ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#grieving #loss #lost-love #love #mourning

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#faith #grieving #grieving-mother #sanity #security

As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror. ↗

— Nancy Horan

#grieving #murder #death

I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dying #grief #grieving #loss #love

What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other. ↗

— Paul Harding

#grief #grieving #loss #loss-of-a-child #sadness