Grief Works Quotes

“Death steals the future we anticipated and hoped for, but it can’t take away the relationship we had.”
― Julia Samuel, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving

“Grief doesn’t hit us in tidy phases and stages, nor is it something that we forget and move on from; it is an individual process that has a momentum of its own, and the work involves finding ways of coping with our fear and pain, and also adjusting to this new version of ourselves, our “new normal.”
― Julia Samuel, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

“Love from others is key in helping us to survive the loss of a particular love. With their support, we can endeavor to find a way of bearing the pain and going on without the person who has died—daring to go forward to trust in life again.”
― Julia Samuel, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

“I have regularly seen that it is not the pain of grief that damages individuals like Annie, and even whole families, sometimes for generations, but the things they do to avoid that pain.”
― Julia Samuel, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving

“Grief {..} eschews avoidance and requires endurance, and forces us to accept that there are some things in this world that simply cannot be fixed.”
― Julia Samuel, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

“Death is the great exposer: it forces hidden fault lines and submerged secrets into the open, and reveals to us how crucial those closest to us have been.”
― Julia Samuel, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving