To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.

~ Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar Grief Loss Siblings

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

~ Corey Ann Haydu

Corey Ann Haydu Death Grief Life Loss Love And Loss

Everyone else’s Minute of remembering is over, but ours stretches on and on. It doesn’tend.

~ Corey Ann Haydu

Corey Ann Haydu Grief Grief And Loss Kindness Loss Support The Careful Undressing Of Love

This is another awful truth of losing people you love: everyone needs something different. And the needs almost never match up.

~ Corey Ann Haydu

Corey Ann Haydu Care Grief Grief And Loss Loss Love Love And Loss Sadness

Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.

~ Corey Ann Haydu

Corey Ann Haydu Grief Loss Love And Loss Sadness Sadness Quotes

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

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Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing something that was invisible and unknown to us while we had it, but is now painfully gone...Longing is not conscious wanting; it's an involuntary yearning for wholeness, for understanding, for meaning, for the opportunity to regain or even simply touch what we've lost.

~ Brené Brown

Brené Brown Grief Loss Wholeness Yearning

I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional reaction to something in the present, it's usually because they haven't resolved something in their past.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Kate Mcgahan Exaggerated Grief Loss Past Present Reaction Response Unresolved

Heartbreak is an altogether different thing. Disappointment doesn't grow into heartbreak, nor does failure...It comes form the loss of love or the perceived loss of love...Heartbreak is what happens when love is lost.

~ Brené Brown

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Grief leads you to believe that life will never be ordinary again, and it never really will be for it is made extraordinary as it is touched and transformed by our greatest loves and deepest losses.

~ Kate Mcgahan

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Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.You will have your ups and downsand moments of terrorand brief moments of peace.You can only go as fastas the ride will take you.Just remember:It will end and you will be okay.

~ Kate Mcgahan

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instead of mourning, instead of a moment of silence or a hateful, islamophobic message, how about today we make the world a little brighter?be kinder. be a little gentler, with yourself and others. take more pictures. tell more jokes. be a better human.today is a lot more than a tragedy. today is a birthday. a day of suicide awareness. a wedding. a birth. a new job. today is a kiss and someone on a tarred over warehouse roof whispering about the day the earth stood still and the day it began spinning again.be kind. just be kind. it's time we took this day back for the wild ones, for the fiery eyes, for the happy and the brave and the new. no more mourning. let it just be a sunday.

~ Taylor Rhodes

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Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

~ Max Porter

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GriefWoke up early this morning and from my bedlooked far across the Strait to seea small boat moving through the choppy water,a single running light on. Rememberedmy friend who used to shouthis dead wife’s name from hilltopsaround Perugia. Who set a platefor her at his simple table long aftershe was gone. And opened the windowsso she could have fresh air. Such displayI found embarrassing. So did his otherfriends. I couldn’t see it.Not until this morning.

~ Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Grief Loss Love

It was magic to be above [the clouds], to see their uppermost contours, the way they caught the light and held it, their vast shadows moving upon the face of the earth. I wished I could open the window and know what the world sounded like at that altitude. I thought about the solitude of that world, how it must be inhabited by the voice of the wind, only. ... I thought about what my crows saw as they flew above canyons and treetops, the birds-eye view of life. They would recognize specific trees, perches, and nesting sites from a completely different perspective than I could. Their maps differed from mine; they knew the topography, the contours of the landscape, on a much grander scale.

~ Elizabeth J. Church

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Her mother’s quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Franckline’s despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the child, then by giving it her despair, the despair that left it unable to live.

~ Pamela Erens

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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

Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

~ C.s. Lewis

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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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

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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

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Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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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

Wayne Earl Grief Loss Love

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Love came from all directions. On paper, on screens, in dishes and words and deeds. We’re thinking of you every minute.I’m sorry.We’re sorry.We’re so sorry…

~ Suanne Laqueur

Suanne Laqueur Grief Loss Love Sorrow

We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen Grief Loss

Denise would never get over it. She knew that. Tommy's bones at the bottom of the well. She and Henry had spent some time with those bones. When the police had finished testing and tagging and photohgraphing them the funeral parlor had given them time before the burial. She'd clutched them to her chest. Run her fingertips along the smooth sockets that had held his shining eyes. There but not there. Some part of her wanted those bones. Wanted to put the femurs under her pillow at night when she went to sleep. To carry his skull around in her purse so she'd be with him always. She understood now how people went crazy and did crazy things.

~ Sharon Guskin

Sharon Guskin Grief Loss

I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Kate Mcgahan Grief Heal Loss Love Miss Write Wrong

She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from loss—perhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learning to cherish alone the things they’d cherished together.She belonged instead to the sad lot who clung to grief, who nurtured it by never moving beyond it. They’d shelter it deep inside where the years padded it in saudade layers like some malignant pearl.

~ Darrell Drake

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Nothing is lost that love remembers.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Kate Mcgahan Grief Loss Love

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

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I missed my one true friend, my mother. She and I were close in a way I don't think many other mothers and daughters were. I slept beside her every night of my childhood: so near to her back, I could probably sketch the constellation of moles and freckles on her skin there. When I was a very little girl, every morning I would wake before her and arrange myself so that when she woke, we were eye-to-eye. I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all reason, and any good sense.

~ Kaitlyn Greenidge

Kaitlyn Greenidge Daughters Grief Loss Love Mothers

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

A lie doesn't become dangerous only with exposure; it is toxic, however well buried.

~ Decca Aitkenhead

Decca Aitkenhead Grief Lies Loss

I felt guilty because I was upset by the loss of one friend when the Old Man had lost nearly everyone he loved. Loss, I soon learned from him, is not measured in numbers. It's not comparative. It's in here. I'm touching my chest now.

~ Michele Young-Stone

Michele Young-Stone Grief Loss

You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart.

~ Buson

Buson Autumn Grief Haiku Loss Poetry

A healing heart has no time frame.

~ Nikki Rowe

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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

And then our Mum and Dad were in love and they were truly dry-stone strong and durable and people speak of ease and joy and spontaneity and the fact that their two smells became one smell, our smell. Us.

~ Max Porter

Max Porter Grief Loss Love

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

~ R. W. Patterson

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