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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

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. — Charles Bukowski

Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this? — William Shakespeare

Grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost. — David Nicholls

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

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

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 heart's smiles help wipe away the soul's tears. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed. — Sere Prince Halverson

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. — William Shakespeare

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

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

Grief Changes shape but it never dies — Keanu Reeves

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. — William Shakespeare

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

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it. — Bodie Thoene

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. — John Fletcher

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

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost. — Claire North

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. — Sophocles

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

Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out ... though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love. — J.K. Rowling

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

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed. — Pericles

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. — Peter Heller

Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go? — Cynthia Hand

Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief. — Munia Khan

Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same. — Katherine McIntyre

Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and safest to keep silent. — Paulo Coelho

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life. — John Claypool

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her. — Eowyn Ivey

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft. — Irvine Welsh

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness. — Stephen Levine

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

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself. — Germaine Greer

His absence is so big it's like he's there. — Patrick Ness

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself. — Anita Brookner

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable. — Donovan

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain. — Michelle Latiolais

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. — E.A. Bucchianeri

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. — Sergio Aragones

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief. — Seneca.

Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant. — Lolah Runda

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. — Simon Van Booy

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

Loss is an inevitable part of change. — Sharon Weil

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light. — Christine De Pizan

For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is. — Nikki Rowe

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness. — Ann Richards

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. — Jose N. Harris

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief. — Claudia Gray

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief. — T.L. Parker

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life. — Claire Cook

I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don't want you to think of me and feel sad. — Esther Earl

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. — Inga Muscio

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

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me — J. Leigh Bralick

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys. — Alphonse De Lamartine

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

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

Grief alone can teach us what is man. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt

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

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness) — Jean Sasson

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup. — Rumi

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

Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing. — Amy Alznauer

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

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love? — Rachel L. Schade

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

Time doesn't always heal all wounds. — A.J. Darkholme

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time. — Lisa Bedrick

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness — Johnny Rich

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief. — Eugene Kennedy

I think sadness/grief turns off a certain part of your brain... maybe out of necessity... maybe for survival. — Sean Patrick Flanery

I couldn't even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita's sadness. — Sonia Sotomayor

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. — Charlotte Bronte

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

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom. — Doppo Kunikida

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. — Veronica Roth

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. — Kohta Hirano

They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief — Isabel Allende

Love does not always end well. — Rachel L. Schade

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

I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed. — Katie McGarry

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. — Horace

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions. — Shaun Hick

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas

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