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What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson

Seven years on, and their absence has expanded. Just as our life would have in this time, it has swelled. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath. — Nicola Morgan

Life when it ends is still alive, memories are the celebration of what it meant. Grieving is that part, our soul, that can't easily say goodbye — S.L. Northey

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself. — Melanie Bennett

...the pain of loss would bet better eventually...It didn't get better, it just go different. — Brenna Yovanoff

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

Grief is ever proud. — L.M. Montgomery

I guess it takes one to know one, and two can play that game. — Siobhan Davis

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

Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. — Laurie Perez

I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again. — Paige Harbison

It was then that I had a choice. I could cry and lay down and die, or I could use what I had learned from him to keep going and fully live. — Aimee DuFresne

Goodbye," she told him, running her hand across his broad back one last time. "I love you. And I'll never, ever stop missing you. — Kate Lattey

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

Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters. — Lois P Frankel

I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength to face again. — Adam Silvera

How many years does it take to grow into someone? — Sarah Schmidt

Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It's like a gift from the universe. — Corey Ann Haydu

I love you best, and I'll miss you forever. — C.J. Redwine

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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 and parting are the same. — Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. — Dean Koontz

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

To stand firm in the condition of loss, is to understand where we are in the process — S.L. Northey

There is a realm in which miracles are possible and do take place. The door to this realm is the belief in all possibilities and YOU are the key. — Vivian Amis

Death leaves trails of mutes. — David Kushner

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go. — Kate DiCamillo

God gifted a Zoo; with a paralyzed care taker. — Durgesh Satpathy

Maybe the thing that we're losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I loved and lost and survived. — Rae Carson

Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do. — Ann Benjamin

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

The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love — Hilary Stanton Zunin

I don't know about the first steps in a geography of loss, and I know that it's unmapped. I know that we all have to go by ourselves. — Wayne Earl

Ethel and Frances found a means for consolation together: travel. — Nancy Carpentier Brown

Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new — Pam Brown

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. — William Shakespeare

The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces - those, I think, are the sensations of grief. — Catherynne M Valente

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. — Henry Cloud

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable? — Gwenn Wright

Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again. — Amy Poehler

What was closure if not a clock? Not an end as everyone imagined, but a beginning. — Celeste Chaney

Sometimes it's a comfort to tell the same stories over and over; sometimes it's a torture — Corey Ann Haydu

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

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

When we start rating each other's lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective. — Ariana Carruth

Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process. — Elizabeth Berrien

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

In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday's affliction and the hope of tomorrow's gifts. — Ariana Carruth

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

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. — David Whyte

I was held for a few moments in the coherence and safety of the life we had, when so much seemed predictable. — Sonali Deraniyagala

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

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

The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters. — Asa Don Brown

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Oivd

Irene Finney filled the void with a child not loved then lost, but first lost, then loved. — Louise Penny

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust exterior she was all butter grief and hunger. — Dorothy Allison

Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart. — Elizabeth Berrien

sometimes I just want to sit in the same place forever because I don't have the energy for another day without Cal in it. — Cath Crowley

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

She missed most of all the feeling of having a mother. — Susan Ornbratt

I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children. — Elin Nordegren

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

Blue doesn't desbribe loss. Grief robs the world of color. Turns it heavy and gray. — Ellery Adams

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn't care who was cut in the process. — Katherine McIntyre

I should be scared, but I am far too excited to let in any fear. — Aimee DuFresne

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. — Stefan Kanfer

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. — Dean Koontz

There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise. — Cheryl Strayed

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

Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty. — Ash Krafton

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking. — Dennis Lehane

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

I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altogether. — Sophie Hardcastle

To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive. — Alex George

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

Never compare your grief.
You - and only you
walk your path. — Nathalie Himmelrich

Do you know what it's like to be blessed with someone so special, to love them so much it hurts, and then have them taken from you forever? — Kim Holden

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

marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. — Khaled Hosseini

We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Some losses never heal you just learn to carry the burden and shed a tear every now and then — Tina Gayle

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

The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person. — Asa Don Brown

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

You are no longer responsible. You are no longer allowed to give a shit. Nobody can need you ever again. Go. — Hannah Moskowitz

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

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are. — Mark Nepo