Bye Quote by Judy Tatelbaum

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the…

— Victoria Alexander

“I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“When friends asked how he was coping with his spectacular loss, he would say, ‘I sleep like a baby – I wake up every…

— Siobhan Creaton

“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. When shutting drawers and flinging wide an hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“love is not just excitement, tenderness, feeling special; it is also a bone-crushing reality of pain.”

— Melissa A. Hanson

“It exists,” Shevek said, spreading out his hands. “It’s real. I can call it a misunderstanding, but I can’t pretend that it doesn’t exist,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way…

— L. W. Sumner

“Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting…

— Bryant McGill

“It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self - ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe…

— Anonymous

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

— Rachel Field

“Wishes aren’t reality. Pain and regret are reality, and I know them now all too well.”

— Anonymous

“Reality is such pain. And for those of us who get fed up with that kind of reality, we simply choose to make a…

— Ryohgo Narita

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

— John Ortberg

Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

— Roger Delano Hinkins