The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

~ Bobby Adair

Bobby Adair Death Loss Regret Sadness

As Tom wandered back to Mrs Mewett’s, he thought about the little relics at the lighthouse – Docherty’s knitting, his wife’s jar of humbugs that sat untouched in the pantry. Lives gone, traces left. And he wondered about the despair of the man, destroyed by grief. It didn’t take a war to push you over that edge.

~ M. L. Stedman

M. L. Stedman Death Life Loss Mourning The Light Between Oceans

Tom thought back to the imposing, empty house: to the silence that deadened every room with a subtly different pitch; to the kitchen smelling of carbolic, kept spotless by a long line of housekeepers. He remembered that dreaded smell of Lux flakes, and his distress as he saw the handkerchief, washed and starched by Mrs Someone-or-other, who had discovered it in the pocket of his shorts and laundered it as a matter of course, obliterating his mother’s smell. He had searched the house for some corner, some cupboard which could bring back that blurry sweetness of her. But even in what had been her bedroom, there was only polish, and mothballs, as though her ghost had finally been exorcised.

~ M. L. Stedman

M. L. Stedman Death Loss Mourning The Light Between Oceans

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

~ K. Martin Beckner

K. Martin Beckner Afterlife Death Eternity Hereafter Life Loss

And then I got to thinking about how, if someone met me for the first time now, they would need to know about Uncle Ed and my parents in order to understand me. Sometimes it feels as though I’m defined by all the people I’ve lost , like one of those negative-space pictures, where what’s not there is just as important as what is.

~ Claire Wong

Claire Wong Death Defines Us Important Details Know The Past Life Changing Events Loss Negative Space The Past The Past Is Never Gone Understand

They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Death Loss Loss Of Love Regret

We have…Settled into a region called “don’t ask don’t tell” and it is hard, i imagine for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of silence and how the absence of language can feel like a death

~ Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernandez Communication Death Don T Ask Don T Tell Language Loss Region

When he left us, he stole all the words.

~ Alex George

Alex George Abandonment Death Grief Loss

This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.

~ Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie Death Loss

Death always feels far away from life, until it isn’t.

~ Corey Ann Haydu

Corey Ann Haydu Death Grief Life Loss Love And Loss

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?

~ Sonal Panse

Sonal Panse Death Loss The Sunshine Time

I think about the people I know with the absolutely largest hearts, people with a stunning capacity for endurance and grace and kindness against the most screaming terrors and pains. My Mom and Dad, for example, enduring the death of their first child at six months old, the boy the brother I never met, dying quietly in his stroller on the porch in the moment that my mother stepped back inside to get a pair of gloves because the crisp brilliant April wind was filled with a whistling cutting wind.... Fifty years later after five more children and two miscarriages she is standing in the kitchen with her usual eternal endless cup of tea and I ask her: How do you get over the death of your child? And she says, in her blunt honest direct terse kind way, You don't. Her face harrowed like a hawk for a moment in the swirling steam of the tea.p112-13

~ Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle Death Grief Grieving Loss Grieving Quotes Loss Loss Of Child

Okay.' I can feel the letters vomit off my tongue.O.K.A. Y.I watch the vet insert the syringe into the catheter and inject the second drug. And then the adventures come flooding back:The puppy farm.The gentle untying of the shoelace.THIS! IS! MY! HOME! NOW!Our first night together.Running on the beach.Sadie and Sophie and Sophie Dee.Shared ice-cream cones.Thanksgivings.Tofurky.Car rides.Laughter.Eye rain.Chicken and rice.Paralysis.Surgery.Christmases.Walks.Dog parks.Squirrel chasing.Naps.Snuggling.'Fishful Thinking.'The adventure at sea.Gentle kisses.Manic kisses.More eye rain.So much eye rain.Red ball.The veterinarian holds a stethoscope up to Lily's chest, listening for her heartbeat.All dogs go to heaven.'Your mother's name is Witchie-Poo.' I stroke Lily behind her ears the way that used to calm her. 'Look for her.'OH FUCK IT HURTS.I barely whisper. 'She will take care of you.

~ Steven Rowley

Steven Rowley Death Dogs Dying Heartbreak Lily And The Octopus Loss Pets

Sometimes a tragedy must happen to keep a soul on schedule. This is the reason for things that seem to have no reason. This is the reason that we cannot fathom when we are going through it.Perhaps I will get very sick. People wonder why cancer exists when it is just a clever method to teach people lessons about love and loss. It borrows time or steals it depending on the needs of Heaven. It is a vehicle to get us where we need to be. It calls us home because something needs us there.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Kate Mcgahan Cancer Death Heaven Life Loss Reason Schedule Sickness Timing Tragedy Transport Vehicle

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

~ Marie Lu

Marie Lu Death Loss Love

Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation.” (Laurus, p. 30)

~ Eugene Vodolazkin

Eugene Vodolazkin Death Liberation Loss Mortality Parting

If grief kills us not, we kill it. Not that I cease to grieve; for each hour, revealing to me how excelling and matchless the being was, who once was mine, but renews the pang with which I deplore my alien state upon earth. But such is God's will; I am doomed to a divided existence, and I submit. Meanwhile I am human; and human affections are the native, luxuriant growth of a heart, whose weakness it is, too eagerly, and too fondly, to seek objects on whom to expend its yearning.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Death Grief Loss Love Mourning

YOU WERE MY FAVORITE THING AND IN IMAGINATION YOUR DEATH WILL NOT EXIST IT IS ALL 'AS IF' FROM NOW ONAS IF YOU ARE NOT GONEYOU WILL BE THE GIRL BESIDE MENEVER MORE THAN A HEARTBEAT LENGTH AWAYTHE WOMAN WHO WILL BE THE HILL OF MY BED A CLIMB TO THE TOPAND SUCH VIEWS TO MAKE LITTLE THINGS OFLITTLE US THAT WILL BE PART YOU AND PART MEAND WHOLE IN THOSE TWO THINGSAS IF YOU ARE NOT GONE AND WILL BE WITH ME TO GET THE WRINKLES THE WHITE HAIRTHE SPINE SHAPED LIKE A ROCKING CHAIRAS IF YOU ARE NOT GONE AND SO WILL HAVE THE LOVE OF GOING IN MY ARMSWARM AND WITH MEYES, YOU ARE MY FAVORITE THINGYOU ALWAYS WILL BE.

~ Tiffany Mcdaniel

Tiffany Mcdaniel Death Loss Love

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Ana Claudia Antunes Attention Death Experiences Grieving Healing Healing Process Incurable Loss Overcoming Painless Relief From Pain Trauma Unacceptable

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Backward Death Dying Failure Forward Gain Grief Grieving Growth Loss Maturation Maturing Opportunities Possibilities Success

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

~ Nadia Hashimi

Nadia Hashimi Burden Burying Death F Fa Loss

There is the softest of sobbing as the coffin is lowered into the ground, but it is difficult to pinpoint who it is coming from, or if it is instead a collective sound of mingled sighs and wind and shifting feet.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern Death Loss Sorrow

Celaena knew where she was before she awoke. And she didn't care. She was living the same story again and

~ Sarah J. Maas

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Dare my guilty heart admit the horrible acknowledgement that I love you still?

~ Charlotte Dacre

Charlotte Dacre Death Guilty Loss Love Love Quote The Devil

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--To speak of it? asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Death Loss Poison From The Memory Ranting Talking Venting

He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.

~ Kristen Henderson

Kristen Henderson Bereavement Confusion Dark Death Denial Disorientation Dying Grief Loss Man Cries Raining Sadness

GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.

~ Kennedy Ryan

Kennedy Ryan Death Grief Life Loss

That is the tragedy of losing an older brother. He stays still. You keep on and one day become the older one. It's unnatural, that reversal. It's the thing that keeps the family from ever being whole again.

~ Tiffany Mcdaniel

Tiffany Mcdaniel Brothers Death Loss

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

~ Justin Cronin

Justin Cronin Death Loss Love Rock Rope Suicide

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.

~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Lynda Cheldelin Fell Bereavement Death Grief Hope Loss

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below.

~ Stephen King

Stephen King Death Lonely Loss Sanity

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained.

~ R. W. Patterson

R. W. Patterson Death Grief Hybrid Loss Love Lost Mortal Suffering Supernatural

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

~ Elizabeth Carlton

Elizabeth Carlton Death Grief Kill Loss Murder

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.

~ Calista Lynne

Calista Lynne Death Loss Ya Lit

On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.

~ Nel Noddings

Nel Noddings Brutality Comradeship Death Enemy Loss Value Of Life

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

~ Apollo Blake

Apollo Blake Death Dying Grief Heartbreak Loss Love New Adult Romance

Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.

~ Monica Hesse

Monica Hesse Death Friendship Loss Love

But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.

~ Monica Hesse

Monica Hesse Death Death And Dying Loss
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