Anne Lamott Quotes About Grieving

Quotes about: Grieving

• You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

• And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Lying, Moving

  "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year". Book by Anne Lamott, 1993.

• All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

• [S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

  Anne Lamott

  Buddhist, Love You, Grieving

  Anne Lamott (1997). “Crooked Little Heart”, Pantheon

• only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Grieving, Alone Time

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

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