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What pays for all this?"
"Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. — Margaret Atwood

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

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you. — Herculine Barbin

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. — Robin McKinley

If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry. — Brent Jones

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

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. — Richard Adams

[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

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained. — R.W. Patterson

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. — Roland Barthes

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

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

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

Do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? — David Wroblewski

Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way. — Chris Scofield

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead. — Brom

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever.
Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away. — Kwame Alexander

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Death is too much to ask of the living. — Dodie Smith

Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born. — Stephen Jenkinson

the mind is a treasure
trove, an almanac, a tomb. — Beth Morey

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him? — Henrik Ibsen

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go. — Christina Baker Kline

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

Killing me will not end your grief. It will only create more of it. — Elizabeth Carlton

When he left us, he stole all the words. — Alex George

Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. — Joan Didion

Death leaves trails of mutes. — David Kushner

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. — Esther Hicks

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

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

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt. — William Shakespeare

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

Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. — Stephen King

They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies. — William Penn

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 life gets tough, just love it a bit harder. — Mounia Bagha

All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone. — Ariel Levy

Death is a door life opens. — Adela Rogers St. Johns

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

Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people - perhaps many people - to death, grief, torment? — Greg Bear

The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief. — Emily Croy Barker

Families that feel together, heal together. — Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D.

Surviving the death of a loved one ... one day at a time. — Sandra Toscano Huerta

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

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just ... survive. Outlive me, please. — Tracy Letts

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. — Rachel Caine

Thanks," Johann finally said. "It's the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on. — Lee Strauss

Even in death, her mother was winning. — Noorilhuda

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

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

The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you. — George R R Martin

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

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

I miss you with the very edge of my skin.
It winces in absence,
a giant muscle contracting. — Valentina Cano

Death is awful fierce. After it cuts those still living into little pieces, grief comes along to watch them bleed. — Sandi Morgan Denkers

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? — C.S. Lewis

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore. — Dianna Hardy

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

Hate me. Rejoice when I die. The last thing I would want now would be to bring you more grief. — Cassandra Clare

Few stories start with death. Often, it starts with grief. — Rin Chupeco

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

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! — William Shakespeare

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

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz

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

Death cannot kill what never dies. — William Penn

Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's. — Eimear McBride

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

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us. — Sandra Chami Kassis

I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know? — Brent Jones

You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me. — Audrey Niffenegger

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

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there. — Lois Lowry

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

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

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life. — P.D. James

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

Inspiration for survival, Motivation for revival! — Sandra Toscano Huerta

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. — Margaret Deland

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

Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light. — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. — Stevie Smith

Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died. — Kathryn Orzech

LOVE IS LIKE A DESIGNER FASHION, ENJOY IT WHEN YOU HAVE IT. LET IT GO WHEN IT IS GONE BECAUSE A NEW ONE WILL COME. — Linda Alfiori

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

...the only thing really worth doing in this life is giving love to everyone around you. — Claire Bidwell Smith

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