Grief is a common and universally tough a part of being an individual. Within the final yr, along with the common-place grieving all of us expertise following loss, we’ve skilled some deeply difficult, multi-layered grief — grieving for the folks we all know (and people who we don’t) misplaced the coronavirus pandemic, grieving for the experiences and time with family members for everybody’s security, grieving for the lack of normalcy and on a regular basis we will’t get again. It’s heavy.

As a result of, if we’re being actual, grief can really feel insurmountable when you’re within the thick of it. There’s a day-to-day ache that doesn’t appear to go away (it simply turns into simpler to work round and reside with). And regardless that there’s no magic “proper” phrases you may say to magically take the harm away, it helps to really feel understood and supported and held in these moments. And typically just a few of the phrases from individuals who have skilled the darkish, lonely elements of grief may also help open up the grieving particular person to conversations about how they’re doing and the way their help system may also help see them by way of.

Grief may be an extremely isolating and lonely time and, whereas everybody’s path to dealing with grief and loss are completely different, there are some issues that stay true: It helps to know that you just’re not alone.

Learn on for just a few of our favourite quotes about grief and loss — and hopefully they convey can deliver consolation to you or somebody you like who’s studying to reside with grief.

A model of this story was revealed January 2020.

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