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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

After Lucca died, everything shut down. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't talk. Somehow they got me on the plane and back home. — Lisa Schroeder

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity? — Pietro Metastasio

On the outside, grief was expressed in judders, faltering and unsure, but inside it felt as constant as breathing. — Kirsty Logan

It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own, — Melina Marchetta

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief. — A.W. Tozer

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

You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss. — Mandy Hale

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

Again, I stuffed down the grief and opened the door wide to denial. I may have looked okay on the outside, but inside I was an ugly hot mess. — Betts Keating

We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come. — George W. Bush

She should have died on that day. Perhaps, in a way, she had. — Anne Cassidy

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. — Jude Watson

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on. — Mary Jo Bang

On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. — J.K. Rowling

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that. — Lasse Hallstrom

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to. — Dave Eggers

Find Hilary Jacobson on Facebook at her Mother Food Page and her group Healing Breastfeeding Grief. — Hilary Jacobson

The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her. — Panashe Chigumadzi

It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself. — Nicci French

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

O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We have hugged each other maybe three or four times - on birthdays,very likely, and clumsily. We have never hugged in moments of grief. — Kurt Vonnegut

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand. — Flavia Weedn

I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive. — Knut Hamsun

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face. — Julius Lester

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on. — George Eliot

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. — William Shakespeare

Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

My grief sought out all parts of my body it hadn't yet inhabited, and I felt like I might collapse in on myself right there, at last, spectacularly — John Darnielle

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure! — Hanif Kureishi

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments... — Thomas Lynch

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree. — George Eliot

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied. — Plutarch

He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she'd fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery. — Katherine McIntyre

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. — Roxane Gay

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed. — Ilona Andrews

If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person. — Faith Sullivan

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul. — Dean Koontz

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield. — Bill Vaughan

There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will. — Taya Kyle

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding. — Markus Zusak

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air. — Jenim Dibie

Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. — Herman Melville

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. — Paul Engle

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture. — Jojo Moyes

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on. — G. Norman Lippert

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. — Anthony Rapp

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven. — Frederick William Faber

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life. — Billy Graham

It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past. — Durgesh Satpathy

I know what it's like to lose kits, Oakheart, I wouldn't wish that kind of grief on any cat. — Erin Hunter

Piled on grief' referred to the iron the smith was beating, since (on his interpretation of the metaphor) the discovery of iron brought grief to men. — Anonymous

I thought about how the smallest of things could set someone on a bustling fire when you didn't have the right shoulder to lean on. — Diyar Harraz

A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief. — Jane Austen

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. — Benjamin Netanyahu

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on. — Chris Cleave

But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter. — Angie Smith

Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. — Jodi Picoult

I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire. — Michel De Montaigne

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. — Madeline Miller

Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it. — Santosh Kalwar

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

Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. — William Shakespeare

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. — Petrarch

Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution. — Mat Luthfi

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. — William Shakespeare

We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things. — Corey Ann Haydu

How will I go on without her?!
The answer was very simple: one day at a time. — Jeff Erno

When did grief end? Did it ever? Or did you just get numb from hurting yourself on it so many times? — Karen Marie Moning

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

Good grief, this guy had a sleeping rug on his chest. — S.M. Reine

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water
if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. — Susanna Kearsley

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

On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much. — Helen Macdonald

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee. — Joseph Addison

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

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered. — George Eliot

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won. — Franz Grillparzer

I'd seen enough grief as a priest to know that people never really moved on, at least not in the linear, segmented way our culture expected people to. — Sierra Simone

Are you crazy?"
"Good grief. I can't be stuck here with that crazy guy." - from CHILLS On the Appalachian Trail — Bobbi Jean

I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss whenever I turn my back on it. — Jim Beaver

On my family: My mother buries her grief in her work. Having no work, grief buries me. — Suzanne Collins

The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't know why I wanted to go on — Kay Redfield Jamison

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! — Alfred Austin

the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

moving on means we have to protect ourselves. — Jojo Moyes

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

See that's exactly why I don't want a dog." "Why?" "Because it'll just die." "Everybody dies, Brooklyn." Like that makes it okay or something. — Lisa Schroeder

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

We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger. — Justine Larbalestier

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? — Jodi Picoult

Once you have walked down the grief path, what you have gained on your journey may turn into invaluable advice for someone else. — Elizabeth Berrien

People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane ... — R. Elizabeth Carpenter

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow. — John Wayne

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. — Catherynne M Valente

We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on. — Sarah Winter