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Quotes About Healing

Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After
~ Unknown
They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.
~ Jodi Picoult, The Pact
you can pass a football, you can gas, but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed
~ Unknown
It is better to be sorrowful than sad.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Music heals the soul, we kneel to the fallen.
~ Sixeye
Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.
~ Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?
~ A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
Forgiveness before one's death, isn't just about asking and receiving it, it's also about forgiving others.
~ Neha Yazmin, Someone Like You
Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips."Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.
~ C.J. Redwine, Deception
I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.
~ Unknown
The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.
~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell
He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.
~ Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.
~ Unknown
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that.
~ Fredrik Backman
The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?
~ Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.
~ C.J. Redwine, Deception
Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.
~ Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
~ Joan Didion
When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.
~ Colleen Hoover, Slammed
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases
~ Thomas Browne