Quotes About Healing

Grief cries and life shines on — and hope paints a rainbow.

It was only a few months after their father's death. His loss had left a wound in Darlene's chest that felt physical, a perpetual ache.

Regret is the glue that makes grief stick around for a lifetime.

The ocean has its ebbings — so has grief.

If guilt or regret is an essential part of your grief, you will never stop grieving.

Grief is a burden but also a friend— It is not grief that wounds your heart but it is grief that heals your heart.

He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend.

There is no timetable for grieving — Grief is a snail It's a shooting star A walk around the lake It's eternity Or frost 'til bloom — Memories coursing through the heart It lasts as many heartbeats as it takes; sometimes all of them.

New Grief awakens the old.

There's a curious thing about pain or hardship. In the beginning, it's an enemy, it's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you've lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them — that they were alive.

That grief will go on, but the love goes on too.

Healing from grief is allowing the courage and purpose within you and the love someone else left you, to merge and create a new sense of being.

Grief is historian of the heart.

Grief bores holes in our hearts & heads like a woodpecker — peck peck peck — knock knock knock You can't make it stop Eventually it flies away — but leaves pits that never fully heal

Stumbling over all those little moments of grief is just a part of moving forward.

Grief is a haunted lake that's all too easy to drown in.

Grief cries pain and sighs love.

There's no reason Grief and Hope can't be friends.

Let grief and guilt stay not too long as houseguests.

Grief moves at its own pace.

Grief is processing what's been taken from you, what's still within you, and all the blessings and memories left behind by the one you're grieving.

Fresh petals of grief will eventually wilt and fall away And along with tears and love, memories and time They will nourish the seeds of healing underneath — Life will re-flower as acceptance, strength, and peace

My grief is like a magician's endless scarf — the more I let out the more there is.

We cannot heal when hate persists.