Cheryl Strayed Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Letting Go, Morning, Cheer

• Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Grief, Son

  "DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column №78: The Obliterated Place". therumpus.net. July 1, 2011.

• I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Grief, Men, Rooms

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Real, Grief, Home

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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