Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.
Shannon L. AlderTag: compassion grief illness homeless patients seeing-people
My dad died, I write. almost a year ago. Car accident. My hand is shaking; my eyes sting and fill. I add Not his fault before pushing the notebook and pen back across the table, wiping a hand across my cheeks.
As he reads, my impulse is to reach out, grab the notebook, run outside, dump it in the trash, bury it in the snow, throw it under the wheels of a passing car - something, something, so I can go back fifteen seconds when this part ofme was still shut away and private. Then I look at Ravi's face again, and the normally white white whites of his eyes are pink. This causes major disruption to my ability to control the flow of my own tears. I see myself when I look at him right now: he's reflecting my sadness, my broken heart, back to me.
He takes the pe, writes, and slides it over. You'd think it's something epic from the way it levels my heart. It isn't.
I'm really sorry, Jill.
Four little words.
Tag: life sorrow grief car-accident
At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Thomas HughesTag: death grief mentoring hero-worship
What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive
to be bitter.
Tag: emotions grief bitterness
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms
the diseased slums of a broken heart
into a palace made of psalms and gold.
Tag: compassion inspiration inspirational-quotes faith sorrow hope infinity roses spirituality survival grief transformation broken-hearts recovery rebirth resurrection classic-quotes pearls savannah-authors-and-poets classic-poems healing-grief inspiration-for-the-soul newtown-connecticut palaces pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter recovery-from-grief spiritual-transformation
How we respond to grief can shape our present
K.C. RhoadsTag: inspirational loss hope grief
He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough.
Adam P. KnaveTag: loss sadness heart sorrow grief heartbreak
I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front of me, all crusty from rolling in the sand, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay and eyes that knew everything I’d ever thought or felt or been.
Judith TarrThere was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.
Jane FallonTag: life death grief personal
I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head,” Winslow said. “Just for a moment. Then you’d know what all I can’t find how to say.
Alan HeathcockTag: loss grief grieving emotional-pain emotional-wounds inarticulate
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