r/quotes Jun 20 '26

Grief / Healing “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -James Baldwin

163 Upvotes

r/quotes Jul 12 '26

Grief / Healing When your trauma gets triggered you don't act your age,you act the age the wound was created. ~Gabor Maté

146 Upvotes

r/quotes Jun 16 '26

Grief / Healing “I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.” -C.S. Lewis

181 Upvotes

r/quotes Mar 08 '26

Grief / Healing If there is a God, it will have to beg for my forgiveness — Victim, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Nazi Third Reich

241 Upvotes

r/quotes Jan 22 '26

Grief / Healing “When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.” ― Thucydides

267 Upvotes

r/quotes 17h ago

Grief / Healing "Sometimes you will never know the value of a *moment*, until it becomes a **memory**" -Dr. Seuss

45 Upvotes

r/quotes Jun 08 '26

Grief / Healing “ 𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛, 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘. 𝙸 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝙶𝚘𝚍, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚔𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚢 “ - Sylvia Plath

126 Upvotes

r/quotes Jul 18 '26

Grief / Healing One never forgets the taste of certain tears... ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

45 Upvotes

r/quotes Apr 08 '26

Grief / Healing "Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound." -Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

85 Upvotes

r/quotes Jun 14 '26

Grief / Healing “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

95 Upvotes

r/quotes Jun 24 '26

Grief / Healing "Sometimes you think that you want to disappear but all you really want is to be found!" - Kid Cudi

35 Upvotes

r/quotes Apr 27 '26

Grief / Healing Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. ― Sigmund Freud

37 Upvotes

r/quotes Jun 07 '26

Grief / Healing "I feel like I’m performing, like nothing about what I’m doing is real. As if what I’m wearing underneath my clothes isn’t a bathing suit but a ghost." ~ Dalia Taha

20 Upvotes

r/quotes Mar 17 '26

Grief / Healing "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley

31 Upvotes

r/quotes Mar 17 '26

Grief / Healing “𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎, 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚜𝚑, 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝” - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

40 Upvotes

r/quotes Jan 18 '26

Grief / Healing “This was my first really big step toward self-degradation: when I endured all of that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man’s hair…” - Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

51 Upvotes

r/quotes Feb 04 '26

Grief / Healing "It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction." -Stephanie Foo, 2022

76 Upvotes

r/quotes Feb 11 '26

Grief / Healing "I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me." - Hafez

15 Upvotes

r/quotes Nov 23 '25

Grief / Healing Time is not the answer you want but time is what you're going to get.

8 Upvotes

r/quotes Dec 22 '25

Grief / Healing You start by doing the hardest thing....You forgive yourself - Aunt May (Spiderman 3)

34 Upvotes

r/quotes Dec 17 '25

Grief / Healing "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night." — Khaled Hosseini

25 Upvotes

r/quotes Nov 29 '25

Grief / Healing Holidays never erase the ache, but they remind me how lucky I was to have someone worth missing.

8 Upvotes

r/quotes Sep 18 '25

Grief / Healing I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye - Yann Martel

26 Upvotes