Quotes About Healing

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around.

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Grief is a process, not a state.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

I discovered on my own that I could cope better with the crippling effects of grief by taking care of myself, eating right, and working out.

Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.

I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it.

With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

I can laugh at my own grief.

It's a different kind of grief when you lose a parent.