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“When they need to mourn longer, collect nests and sew one big enough for them to weep in.”

Book:Meant to Wake Up Feeling

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“I didn't know that would be the last time I'd see him, his neck scar lit blue by the diner's neon marquee. To see that little comma again, to put my mouth there, let my shadow widen the scar until, at last, there was no scar to be seen at all, just a vast and equal dark sealed by my lips. A comma superimposed by a period the mouth so naturally makes. Isn't that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”

Love Writing Death Sadness Mourning

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“That’s just life. You can fight it or you accept it. The only difference is, if you accept it, you get to do other things. If you fight it, you’re stuck in the same spot forever.”

Life Fear Change Loss Grief Mourning

Book:The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“Mourning with no end, and a sense that I had lost everything - my child, my mother's love and protection, my father's love and protection, the life I had once imagined for myself - hollowed me out. I floated every day alone and disconnected, and could not find comfort or release. I understood clearly that my history had harmed me, had cut me off from the normal connections between people. Every day for five years I had been afraid of this disconnection, feeling the possibility of perfect detachment within my reach, like a river running alongside, inviting me to step into its current.”

Loss Grief Connections Trauma Mourning Detachment Abandonment

Book:Without a Map

Source: Without a Map

“Understand there’s no right or wrong way to grieve, including anticipatory grief. It’s like the ocean. It ebbs and it flows. There can be moments of calm. But out of nowhere, it can feel like you're drowning.”

Death Loss Grief Depression Mourning Loss Of Family Stages Of Grief Anticipatory Grief Coping With Grief Loss Of Pets

Book:Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way Down South in Dixie (Bruised body high in air) I asked the white Lord Jesus What was the use of prayer. Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.”

Love Death Poetry Loss Grief Lovers Mourning Poems Lynching

Author:Langston Hughes

“Only those who escape Yesterday understand the language of Now.”

Mourning

Book:The Land of Yesterday

Source: The Land of Yesterday

“My mother who died young In an outlandish rhythm Would have been seventy now And perhaps dead in funeral time. So I may start to mourn As I would celebrate The first or second birthday Of a still-born baby. - Out of Season”

Mourning Premature Death

Book:The Survivors

Source: The Survivors

“And for this woman here, Fabien’s death would only just begin tomorrow—in every action, useless now, in trivial objects ... useless. Little by little Fabien would leave his home.”

Death Mourning

Book:Night Flight

Source: Night Flight

“Is nausea always a manifestation of grief? Who am I to know? I have never been thus before. Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.”

Change Loss Grief Mourning Nausea

Book:Moon Tiger

Source: Moon Tiger

“My interactions with troubled or angry congregants have involved less explaining and more hand-holding. I have more than once paid a condolence call on a family to whom something so awful had happened that words seemed inadequate. So I didn’t offer words, beyond ‘I’m sorry, I feel so bad for you.’ I would often sit quietly with the grieving widow or parent for several minutes, and when I would get up to go, the mourner would throw her arms around me and say, ‘Thank you for being here with us.’ My presence represented God’s caring presence, the symbolic statement that God had not abandoned them. That reassurance, more than any theological wisdom, was what I was uniquely qualified to offer them.”

Death Mourning

Book:Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life

Source: Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life

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