It is psychotic to draw a line between two places.It is psychotic to go.It is psychotic to look.Psychotic to live in a different country forever.Psychotic to lose something forever.The compelling conviction that something has been lost is psychotic.Even the aeroplane's dotted line on the monitor as it descends to Heathrow is purely weird ambient energy.It is psychotic to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave that home or country, the place where you submitted again and again, forever. Indeed, it makes the subsequent involuntary arrival a stressor for psychosis.

~ Bhanu Kapil

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And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

~ Emily Dickinson

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I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

~ Hannah Moskowitz

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Sorrowful tears drench the earth, rise again in the form of hope

~ Connie Jordan

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Wisdom often comes from those with the least to lose.

~ James A. Moore

James A. Moore Inspirational Loss Wisdom

Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the funeral? I mean, the burial?No, I did not.Because you weren’t sad?Because it was nobody’s business if I was.

~ Khaled Hosseini

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Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others.

~ Michelle Franklin

Michelle Franklin Loss War

know one day, I will be gone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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For so long, she had remained the sleeping volcano, her passion and pain and anger roiling quietly as lava within. She’d buried her love deep within her core; with heat and pressure she made diamonds of it all, gemstones precious and beautiful, glittering and indestructible and of no use but to be hoarded in her heart.

~ Julia Debarrioz

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I barely even know how I didn't feel. I didn't feel like reading a newspaper, or having a coffee, or going for a jog, or watching television. Nor did I feel like crying behind the boiler in the basement. Or like trying out for something. I did't even feel like I had lost someone I deeply loved; this was different from that. I didn't feel like going to another movie and asking for extra butter on my popcorn. I didn't feel like talking to someone who would understand.

~ Rivka Galchen

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Loving her was heaven that turned to hell when she died.

~ Jonathon Scott Fuqua

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Three boys. Three deaths. One school. We've made the national news. Is out school cursed? Are we a reckless bunch of fools? The media asks questions no one can answer. Kids can't stop crying.

~ Lisa Schroeder

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Time doesn’t heal anything. It’s like drinking. The best it can do is help you forget, if you’re lucky.

~ Paula Stokes

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Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.

~ Rachel Caine

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

~ Dianna Hardy

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The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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I've missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am. Like if someone looked inside me, there wouldn't be a skeleton and muscles and blood and nerves. There'd just be memories of you and all the things I've tried to say and ripped out of this notebook, all the things I want to say but can't because I don't have the words.

~ Elizabeth Scott

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The only person you should ever fear losing in a relationship is you yourself.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

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You can’t make someone your everything because when they are gone you have nothing left.

~ Kate Mcgahan

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Well, I'm sorry you couldn't make it either. I'm sorry I had to sit there in that church--which, by the way, had a broken air conditioner--sweating, watching all those people march down the aisle to look in my mother's casket and whisper to themselves all this mess about how much she looked like herself, even though she didn't. I'm sorry you weren't there to hear the lame choir drag out, song after song. I'm sorry you weren't there to see my dad try his best to be upbeat, cracking bad jokes in his speech, choking on his words. I'm sorry you weren't there to watch me totally lose it and explode into tears. I'm sorry you weren't there for me, but it doesn't matter, because even if you were, you wouldn't be able to feel what I feel. Nobody can. Even the preacher said so.

~ Jason Reynolds

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I remember the big gaping hole left by my dad’s absence in the months following the accident. He’d been the one who went to my parent-teacher conferences, the one who taught me mnemonics to memorize the Great Lakes and the Earth’s atmospheres. Whenever I did something silly, my dad always made me feel better by telling me a story from the firehouse about someone who had done something even sillier. Sometimes you don’t realize all the things a person does for you until they aren’t there to do them anymore.

~ Paula Stokes

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All the love you ever gave is waiting for you there at Rainbow Bridge.

~ Kate Mcgahan

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Come in! come in !’ he sobbed.‘Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart’s darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last!

~ Emily Brontë

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Now and then, I remember you in timesUnbelievable. And in places not made for memoryBut for the transient, the passing that does not remain.

~ Yehuda Amichai

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You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.

~ Jonathan Tropper

Jonathan Tropper Loss Love Mourning

Quentin quieted and watched her for a moment, hungrily, like he was trying to memorize every detail. Maybe he was. Forever is a long time. You have to burn the edges of memory onto your heart, or they can fade, and sometimes the second loss is worse than the first one.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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There are pieces of you that will always be with me.

~ Nicole Garcia

Nicole Garcia Loss Love Poetry

…struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother’s sorrow and his sister’s longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit’s skull.

~ Louise Penny

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Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home.In the porch I met my father crying—He had always taken funerals in his stride—And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pramWhen I came in, and I was embarrassedBy old men standing up to shake my handAnd tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'.Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,Away at school, as my mother held my handIn hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.At ten o'clock the ambulance arrivedWith the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.Next morning I went up into the room. SnowdropsAnd candles soothed the bedside; I saw himFor the first time in six weeks. Paler now,Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot.No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.A four-foot box, a foot for every year.

~ Seamus Heaney

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If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business.

~ Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

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There's no end. There's no endto this world, everlasting.We crumble to dust in its arms.

~ Patrick Phillips

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Horror shares an edge with hilarity.

~ Shannon Huffman Polson

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If love was a lucky penny, shiny and unspoiled, secreted in a most unlikely place, then it's tarnished flipside was loss.

~ Ellery A. Kane

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I love you best, and I'll miss you forever.

~ C.j. Redwine

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Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere.

~ Terry Pratchett

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You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss like chains tight around my chest,and if you see a fire from the shore tonightit’s my chains going up in flames.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indifference,I miss you like a frozen tear finding its course,I miss you in your presence inside me,I miss you in every breath I take.

~ Debatrayee Banerjee

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Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that.

~ Terry Pratchett

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Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.

~ Lawren Leo

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Oscar did not know what he was supposed to be feeling right now, what all the adults behind him would be expecting him to feel. He did not even know what he was, in fact, feeling. Except, whatever it was, it was a lot. Too much. More than bodies could hold.

~ Anne Ursu

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