What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

~ Noorilhuda

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

~ Noorilhuda

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No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

~ Becky Chambers

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Everybody dies, and everybody loses people they love-everybody-and that is not an excuse for you to fucking die. I love you, and I need you to be my mother, and I need you to have a life. So get over yourself.

~ Cynthia Hand

Cynthia Hand Grief

Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

~ نزار قباني

نزار قباني Grief Healing

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

~ Rod Serling

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Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.

~ Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Grief Memories

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

~ Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes Existence Existential Crisis Grief Life Purpose

I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Accepting Forgetting Grief Healing Time

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

Julian Barnes Coping Death Grief Mourning Pretending Survival

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. But we cannot, I think, survive without such belief. So each of us must pretend to find, or re-erect, a pattern.

~ Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes Grief Life Patterns Survival

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

~ Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon Grief Loss Of A Child

Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.

~ Kavita Kané

Kavita Kané Grief

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

~ Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes Death Grief Mourning

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car.They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it.

~ Joan Didion

Joan Didion Grief Grief And Loss Omens Survivors

... when she called to mind all this utter and crushing misery that had come upon my aunts' old music-master, she was moved to very real grief, and shuddered to think of that other grief, so different in its bitterness, which Mlle. Vinteuil must now be feeling, tinged with remorse at having virtually killed her father.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Grief Misery

Every day my anxiety is higher,every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini Anxiety Grief Terror

By all accounts Rafe's life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and hadn't taken that hat off since.

~ Eloisa James

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Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

~ David Sheff

David Sheff Acceptance Grief Survival

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

~ Chris Scofield

Chris Scofield Death Grief Jesus Resurrection

Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

~ Deshwal Sachin

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Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again.

~ Amy Poehler

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

~ R.l. Stine

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A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

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Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing and you were in the best possible place in the world for it - in a beautiful place of worship, surrounded by grace. Take this time, every minute of it. Let things work themselves out here in India.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it… this place, she decided, was called Smog City.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

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I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, Come on – appreciate your wife!

~ Jeremy Camp

Jeremy Camp Bitterness Grief Perspective

Grief is like a roller coaster. Somedays we feel up and other days we feel down.

~ Louise Suzanne Boyd

Louise Suzanne Boyd Grief

Many people think that crying is a sign of weakness, they're wrong - it is a sign of healing.

~ Louise Suzanne Boyd

Louise Suzanne Boyd Grief

I took his razor from the shower floor, bits of his black hair still caked between the blades. I took his toothbrush from the sink counter and sucked on the bristles, trying to find the taste of him, but there was only the flavor of watery mint toothpaste....I pulled the sheets off the bed with the idea that I could gather up the imprint of him and save it. I thought, I can unfurl the sheets on our old bed at home. I can lie in the creases formed by his body. I can sleep with him again.

~ Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Grief

The road of grief is often long and lonely and many stones need to be moved out of the way, but it is not without its lighter moments.

~ Louise Suzanne Boyd

Louise Suzanne Boyd Grief

Most of us go through this journey of grief at different speeds

~ Louise Suzanne Boyd

Louise Suzanne Boyd Grief

Home is where I take up such a tiny portion of the memory foam; home is a splintered word. His pillow is a sweat-stained map of an escape plot, also a map of love’s dear abandon. (When did he give way, at which breath?) Forgiveness may mean retrospectively abandoning the pillow and abandoning the photograph of someone with curious eyes, kissing my toes, poolside. I paint my toes Big Apple Red. I don’t know what to do about the shock of red nails on clean, white tiles except get used to it. (And when he gave way, was there room for feelings or the words for feeling?) While I brush my teeth, I can see him in my periphery at the other sink. The outline of him lulls and stings. (And when he gave way, was it the end of the beginning of suffering?) I draw his profile near, I make him brush his teeth with me, he spits and makes a mess. I could love another face, but why?

~ Karen Green

Karen Green Death Grief Suicide

With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated

~ Charisse Montgomery

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Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.

~ Lord Melbourne

Lord Melbourne Grief Grief Relief

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold.

~ Roman Payne

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I know I could have saved your ashes to put into the ocean, but I wanted you to have the journey, all the way with the currents, to the open sea. And I know that when I finally get to see the waves washing on the shore, to hear them, I will feel you there.

~ Ava Dellaira

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Grief is better than happiness, because in grief a person draws close to God. Your wings open. A tent is set up in the desert where God can visit you. Wealth that arrives in grief is what we spend in joy. The soul is greater than anything you ever lost.

~ Bahauddin

Bahauddin God Grief Happiness

A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the living are inviolable, no hiatus called on account of misery, spiritual crisis, or awful weather.

~ Mark Doty

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