The Path of Grief Quotes

“Sometimes my eyes tear up without warning, and I suddenly realize that I am missing him fiercely in a seemingly infinite moment of sadness that is all about daughterness. Lately I have recognized that I will always have this part of missing him deep inside me, or maybe that is just part of growing up. Growing up is an ongoing Journey, and grieving is one of the feeling we are likely to encounter on The Path.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“I have knelt is silent prayer, and also cried towards heaven countless times. I have repeated words as mantras, and I have executed dozens of heartfelt discourses to the open air. When did I top praying so often about losing my father, and being praying to find myself? At some point, it was not so much about my Dad, and not even about loss. It became about the way forward. Now I am the voyager, stuck as I am. in memories and more.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“I am reminded of the true meaning of Confidence, which is about living with fidelity. Being True to Oneself is the route to confidence. How cool is that? Tp walk a Confident Path, is to be True to the Self.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Where can I take myself to be in the presence of others who can help me balance the extremes and the changes in my Path? The answer is that each choice I make will be a right choice when I am true to my Authentic Self.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Perhaps there is no such thing as a bottomless pool of grief. Maybe grief is a desert.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“People ask me how I am, and I say "ok," meaning "as well as an be expected," but do they know about the bottomless pool of sorrow? The anchor that drags me downward?”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“I cry a lot these days. I am a pool of sadness, and I wonder at its depth. I sometimes imagine a bottomless pit that I will fall into in this despair I feel. Is there a limit to sorrow?”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“When we travel the Path of Grief we move at our very own pace an in our own way. This is a Truth. To be True to the Self, the Path of Grief cannot be charted by anyone else but the Self.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Somewhere or somewhen, someone will say something about life "going back to normal," and it will be the craziest thing that has ever been uttered in the history of the world, but people who pretend to be sane will treat it like a rational statement, and maybe . . .
. . . maybe, if we are not careful we will believe the lie. No, life has changed, and no one else gets to decide what or when is "normal.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Of course I must go. To acknowledge the markers on the Path is part of living and showing up for death is important, even when death takes its time.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“He said my name aloud, but he was asleep. I crawled into his hospital bed with him again as best I could with all the extra paraphernalia in the way, and then the flood started. I began to cry a little bit, and then more poured out. I could not stop it. How could I know a gushing river would burst through the dam of appropriateness and strength I try to project and mix with the I-Love-Yous coming from my mouht and the giant tears I did not know were waiting behind my eyes? How do anyone's eyes stay in their head with such pressure swimming and bleeding onto a pillow?

I Love you, Daddy. I am going to miss you, I thought to myself.

"Good-bye," I choked out the words.

"Good-bye, honey," said my sleeping, dreaming Daddy.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Do the iconized versions of the memories we hold onto with those we love and mourn make it easier to process our thoughts?”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Maybe grief is a way to acknowledge the combined separateness and togetherness of the relationship once shared. Death is a sharp slap that refuses to be ignored The End seems so final.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future