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The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.
— Nalo Hopkinson
Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.
— Anthony Liccione
A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
— Jen Pollock Michel
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
— Hilaire Belloc
Ah, a romantic." Danny leaned back, threading his fingers behind his head. "I used to be one, until my wife died. And then I was just pathetic.
— Mary Jane Hathaway
Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.
— Sharon Salzberg
They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.
— Edith Wharton
But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.
— Monica Hesse
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
— Jodi Picoult
Dead.
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths. — Melanie Cusick-Jones
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths. — Melanie Cusick-Jones
The greatest loss is the lost of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
— K.J. Parker
Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way.
— Julian Short
I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.
— Patricia Briggs
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.
— Cheryl R Cowtan
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Sunday evenings had long saddened me, reminders of death, unfinished business, guilt, and loss.
— Alain De Botton
Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.
— Dennis Lehane
Would we believe their story; if the dead should return?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born.
— Stephen Jenkinson
Do what you love and own who you are.
Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both — Galadrielle Allman
Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both — Galadrielle Allman
How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?
— Gwenn Wright
I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.
Inside, though, I was already broken. — Shaun David Hutchinson
Inside, though, I was already broken. — Shaun David Hutchinson
Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
— Pablo Neruda
Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.
— Annabel Pitcher
Heartbreak , death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well.
— Laura Ward
Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal.
— Diana Pharaoh Francis
There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
— George W. Bush
Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn't final and irrevocable.
— Lurlene McDaniel
The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can't make smooth, no matter how hard you try.
— Paula Stokes
Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.
— Daisy Whitney
So you see, the grief doesn't get smaller - life just gets bigger
— Lucie Brownlee
The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.
— Frank Beddor
Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.
— Dean Koontz
It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.
— Morgan Matson
Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.
— Nana Awere Damoah
The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
— Renae Jones
I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.
— Claire Bidwell Smith
At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.
— Calista Lynne
Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.
— Lawren Leo
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
— Gail Caldwell
I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I'd learned to harden myself against loss and death.
— Gregory David Roberts
Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will.
— Oumar Dieng
Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!
— Nikita Dudani
Death is death and loss is loss.
— Melina Marchetta
If it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief.
— Nana Awere Damoah
The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.
— Chris Matakas
Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.
— Mary Karr
And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's privilege? — Emily Dickinson
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's privilege? — Emily Dickinson
All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.
— Diana Gabaldon
What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.
— Justin Cronin
You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
— Dee Remy
The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Death leaves trails of mutes.
— David Kushner
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
— Sigmund Freud
She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.
— Tan Redding
marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.
— Khaled Hosseini
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.
— Augusten Burroughs
My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.
— Elisabeth Egan
I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin - if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.
— Francesca Lia Block
To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
— Aleksandra Layland
Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.
— Daisy Whitney
I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?
— Jim Sheeler
Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
— Kathryn Orzech
We do not have control
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it. — Nathalie Himmelrich
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it. — Nathalie Himmelrich
He's gone now. He did something terrible, but ... he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.
— Anne Ursu
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.
— Richard Carmona
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests.
— Erin Hunter
I wish he had let you all die
— Madeline Miller
I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.
— Cheryl Strayed
All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.
— Ariel Levy
When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss. — Christina Rasmussen
This is the duality of loss. — Christina Rasmussen
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
— Erin Hunter
He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.
— Donna Lynn Hope
There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?
— Sonal Panse
Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.
— Stephen King
It's a happy life and someone is missing.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to grieve forever.
— Christina Rasmussen
Death and parting are the same.
— Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf
I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
— Shaun David Hutchinson