Top 15 David Kessler Quotes

Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn't mean needing someone to try to lessen it or reframe it for them. The need is for someone to be fully present to the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining.

You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.

When someone dies, the relationship doesn't die with them.

Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.

Healing doesn't mean the loss didn't happen. It means that it no longer controls us.

If I had my life to live over again, I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.

People often say, "I don't know how you're doing it." I tell them that I'm not. I'm not deciding to wake up in the morning. I just do. Then I put one foot in front of the other because there's nothing else to do. Whether I like it or not, my life is continuing, and I have decided to be part of it.

A loved one's death is permanent, and that is so heartbreaking. But I believe your loss of hope can be temporary. Until you can find it, I'll hold it for you. I have hope for you. I don't want to invalidate your feelings as they are, but I also don't want to give death any more power than it already has. Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. Lose your child and you're… nothing. — Tennessee Williams

Life gives us pain. Our job is to experience it when it gets handed to us. Avoidance of loss has a cost.

The will to save a life is not the power to stop a death.

Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

Love and grief come as a package deal. If you love, you will one day know sorrow.