Dealing with death is one of the most difficult parts of life. Every loss can rip your life apart but losing someone suddenly can be even more challenging. Sudden death is completely unexpected, making it impossible fully prepared to deal with the grief and overwhelming shock of unforeseen loss. If you’re looking for ways to cope, check out the following advice. 

Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help

Grief and shock from an unexpected death can be devastating, but the worst thing you can do is try to go through it alone. Make sure to express your feelings to your friends and family. If you feel you aren’t coping normally, don’t hesitate to seek the help of a grief counselor. Seek the help of a trained professional immediately if you are having unhealthy thoughts or thinking of harming yourself or others.

Understand and Embrace the Grieving Process

It is impossible to deal with a sudden death overnight, and avoiding the loss you’re feeling will only prolong the hurt you eventually have to deal with. Learn about the five stages of grief and what to expect, as well as how to work through them. 

Everyone experiences grief differently, but there are several parts to the process that can be expected. Knowing this will also help you to recognize when you’re not coping in a healthy way. Depending on the nature of death, speaking with legal representation like these Redlands car accident lawyers can ease your grief by helping you know that the legal side of things are covered. 

Expect Delayed Reactions and Setbacks

Because of the unforeseen and unpredicted nature of a sudden death, the grief stages may be interrupted by periods of confusion and shock. Common emotional reactions such as denial, anger, and sadness may be amplified and intensified or possibly unbearable. Be prepared for waves of emotions to rush in once the initial shock wears off.

Take Care of Things

An unexpected death can make everything else seem unimportant. However, you still need to take care of practical matters. If you’re finding it difficult to concentrate, try making a list of things that need done. That might include caring for a pet or paying bills. It also helps to cross items off as you go along. 

Relying on legal aid during this time is critical to your wellbeing. Lawyers like these personal injury attorneys in Folsom can handle the mounds of paperwork and court proceedings while you take care of your life and your family. 

Take Care of Yourself

You need to remember to take care of yourself, too. Even when you don’t feel like it, be sure to eat well and try to get enough sleep. Take a bath or shower, put on clean clothes, comb your hair, and brush your teeth. Take time to meditate or a take short walk. Even a small change of scenery can make you feel just a little better.

Mourn at Your Own Pace

Everyone mourns differently. Some mourning periods last a few weeks, months, or even years. Sometimes, grief can hit you again when you least expect it. You don’t have to rush, and you don’t have to “get over it.” However, if you feel you are not making progress in the grieving process or if it’s affecting your life in unusual ways, don’t be afraid to talk to a professional and get the help you need.  

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Everyone experiences sadness at some time in their lives. Usually it is due to the loss of something or someone. But there are good things about being sad so here are some quotes to remind you.

Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
– Dita Von Teese

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
– Carl W. Buechner

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.
– Taraji P. Henson

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
– Helen Keller

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’
– John Greenleaf Whittier

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
– Jim Rohn

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Jung

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
– Jean de La Fontaine

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
– Sidney Madwed

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
– Nicholas Sparks

Sadness is also a kind of defense.
– Ivo Andric

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
– José N. Harris

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
– Brian Andreas

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It’s a fact of life, like contradictions are.
– Robert Redford

I’m happy, I would say that I’m one of the happiest people I know but I’ve certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
– Richard Marx

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
– C.S. Lewis

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Don’t let failure get you down because it means you are one step closer to success. Read these quotes from inspiring individuals who have faced the same circumstances but grown from them. Don’t give up.

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
– Jason Mraz

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
– Johnny Cash

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
– Sophocles, Antigone

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
– Jules Verne,

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas A. Edison

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
– Robert T. Kiyosaki,

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
– John Burroughs

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.
– Roy T. Bennett

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
– Erin Cummings

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it’s as simple as that.
– Ashly Lorenzana

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
– Louis E. Boone

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.
– Roy T. Bennett

I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
– Emma Watson

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
– Elbert Hubbard

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
– E. O. Wilson

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Suffering any sort of pain can be impossible to bear. Whether it is short or long term, pain is impossible to avoid in life. But looking at it from a different perspective will help us deal with it.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
– William C. Bryant

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

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
– Kevyn Aucoin

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
– Paulo Coelho

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
– Aeschylus

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
– C.S. Lewis

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
– Bob Dylan

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
– Mary Manin Morrissey

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
– C.S. Lewis

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
– Henri Nouwen

We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later… Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
– Mary Austin

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If you find yourself being overtaken my jealousy, read through these quotes and lead yourself away from this negative emotion.

Here’s what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.
— Douglas Coupland

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
— Matthew McConaughey

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
— J.R. Ward

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
— Erica Jong

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
— Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else’s. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.
— Roy T. Bennett

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
— Havelock Ellis

Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else’s. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.
— Roy T. Bennett

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
— Aphra Behn

Haven’t you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.
— Scott Westerfeld

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
— Paul Eldridge

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.
— Shannon L. Alder

It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
— Rupert Everett

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self—doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.
— Steve Maraboli

My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
— Rodney Dangerfield

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.
— Roland Barthes

It’s a completely useless emotion — jealousy. I don’t go there.
— Joy Behar

Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it.
— Kirsten Hubbard

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In times of unimaginable loss and heartache, find peace in these timeless truths.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

– Helen Keller

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

– Mark Twain

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

– Elie Wiesel

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

– Leonardo da Vinci

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

– Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

– Pope Francis

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

– Samuel Beckett

You only live twice:

Once when you are born

And once when you look death in the face

– Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

– Patrick Henry

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.

– Jim Morrison

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

– J. K. Rowling

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

– Thomas Hobbes

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

– William Penn

I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car and into another.

– John Lennon

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

– James Baldwin

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

– Oscar Wilde

Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.

– Mishkat Al-masabih

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

– Honore de Balzac

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

– C.S. Lewis

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

– Arthur Balfour

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

– Marianne Williamson

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

– Henry Ward Beecher

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

– August Wilson

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

– Desmond Tutu

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

– T. D. Jakes

My heart was heavy, for its trust had been

Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong;

So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men,

One summer Sabbath day I strolled among

The green mounds of the village burial-place;

Where, pondering how all human love and hate

Find one sad level; and how, soon or late,

Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face,

And cold hands folded over a still heart,

Pass the green threshold of our common grave,

Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart,

Awed for myself, and pitying my race,

Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave,

Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!

– A S J Tessimond

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

– Robert Frost

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Fear can creep up on us when we least expect it. Here are some quotes to support you in times of fear, and help you find courage when you need it most.

Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

– Queen Latifah

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself–nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.

– Marie Curie

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

– Marilyn Monroe

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

– George S. Patton

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child’s vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

– Ernest Hemingway

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

– Donald Dowes

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.

– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

– George Washington Carver

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it’s contagious.

– Jimmy Stewart

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

– Joseph Campbell

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

– Rosa Parks

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

– Mark Twain

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.

– Sophie Tunnell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

– Bertrand Russell

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When we experience the death of a loved one, the pain can be unbearable and we wonder if the sadness will ever leave us.  We have handpicked the quotes that we feel are the most compassionate and will give some consolation in times of need.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

– Irving Berlin

Grief is the price we pay for love.

– Queen Elizabeth II

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

– Bertolt Brecht

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument, which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

– Walt Whitman

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

– Winston Churchill

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

– Norman Cousins

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.

– William Shakespeare

Seeing death as the end of life

is like seeing the horizon

as the end of the ocean.

– David Searls

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We all have fears overtake us at some time in our lives. They may not be life threatening, but to us at the time they are still very real, although often unfounded.  Overcoming fear will enable you to take back control of your life in that moment, giving you the freedom you deserve. Here are a few of our favorite quotes to help you deal with your fear.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

– John F. Kennedy

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

– Nelson Mandela

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

– Mark Twain

A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

– Confucius

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.

– Bible Verse John 14:27

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

– Dorothy Thompson

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

– Mark Twain

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

– Steve Jobs

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