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“To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering”

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“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea.”

Life Death Regret Absence Grieving Mourning Loved Ones

Book:Consolations

Source: Consolations

“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist. And persist. And persist. She may alternate between wanting to protect her mother and resenting her, an advance-and-retreat dance of identification and rejection than can span years.”

Death Women Loss Grief Resilience Parents Grieving Mothers Daughters

Author:Hope Edelman

“The morning after their deaths, Armand had gone into their room. The scent of them, the sense of them, almost too much to bear. The clothing. The book. The bookmark. The bedside clock, still ticking. He'd thought that strange. Surely it should have stopped.”

Book:A Great Reckoning

Source: A Great Reckoning

“Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.”

Book:You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“I'm gonna tell you some stories, and some of them might be true." Jack Bates”

Grieving Grief And Loss Home Funeral

Book:The Final Road Trip: Dust To Dust (Rascal Publishing)

Source: The Final Road Trip: Dust To Dust (Rascal Publishing)

“Have I not yet discovered that the ashes of today enrich the soil of tomorrow?”

Opportunity Loss Tomorrow Future Resources Destruction Seeds Grieving Soil Ashes

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you truly want victory, avoid frivolities.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“Love consumes me like the burning flame of a candle, I grieve in your Longing, my desire too agonizing to be handled Your separation inflamed my wound, Love, Deserted my Heart and left it in shambles. -- Irtika Kazi, Till Distance do us part”

Author:Irtika Kazi

“I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in my mind. So I stopped talking about them, I wouldn't mouth my boys' names, I shoved away stories of them. Let them, let our life, become as unreal as that wave.”

Grief Grieving Avoidance Unreal Painful Memories Grief And Lots

Author:Sonali Deraniyagala

“But now it seemed to me that Hamlet was moody and irascible in no small part because he is grieving: his father has just died. He is radically dislocated, stumbling through the days while the rest of the world acts as if nothing important has changed.”

Death Loss Grief Grieving Shakespeare Hamlet

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye