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I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever. — Molli Fields

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent. — Noorilhuda

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was. — Sharon Salzberg

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. — Jim Bishop

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. — V.C. Andrews

[They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks. — Diane Setterfield

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

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows. — Don Marquis

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night. — Donna Lynn Hope

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away. — Charles Bracelen Flood

The problem with love is this: It dies. And when it does, you die with it. — Apollo Blake

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend. — Noorilhuda

Should I rejoice in the inferiority of my fate?" - John Lockwood — Noorilhuda

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

While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one's bowels.

Painful change just takes time. — Jessica Watts

My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead. — Cheryl R Cowtan

I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying is done, you see how the end is the beginning. — Elizabeth Berg

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

Time doesn't heal all wounds. We both know that's bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say. — Adam Silvera

She was gone but it seemed she was still always there, right at the center. — Georgia Blain

Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human. — C.J. Redwine

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

Death might be a blessing if it means you never have to face this kind of grief. — Carol Cassella

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me? — Noorilhuda

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid. — Pearl S. Buck

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. — Robin Hobb

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. — Rumi

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. — Rainer Maria Rilke

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it. — Noorilhuda

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door. — Ethel M. Dell

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

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 am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye. — Claire Bidwell Smith

It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little. — Brent Jones

The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74 — Robin Romm

He wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been. — Sharon Sala

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity. — Noorilhuda

Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?
Isn't there a difference between things and human beings? — Honeya

There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief - and even death. — Priscille Sibley

As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love. — Amy Eldon

Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss. — Meg Donohue

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart. — Simon Armitage

Nurse your grief, don't spill a drop of it, because it'll help you to reach your zenith, some day. — Lara Biyuts

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already. — Aliki

Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead. — Lawren Leo

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days. — Victoria Hanley

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself. — Kelly Braffet

Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will. — Oumar Dieng

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe ... — May Sarton

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. — Meghan O'Rourke

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

Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck. — Mark Slouka

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

One must learn to live with the living before one can learn to live with the dead. — Irvin D. Yalom

My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die. — Tessa Gratton

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away. — Julian Barnes

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

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much. — Nina LaCour

There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. — Pablo Neruda

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life. — Edgar Morin

Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within. — Eleesha

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? — Philip K. Dick

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley

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 leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever — Jandy Nelson

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

It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished. - 140 — Robin Romm

I wish he had let you all die — Madeline Miller

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

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

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth? — Noorilhuda

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

Even in death, her mother was winning. — Noorilhuda

So you see, the grief doesn't get smaller - life just gets bigger — Lucie Brownlee

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

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve

Death leaves trails of mutes. — David Kushner

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

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry