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“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”

Grief Silence Cutting Dog Bones Clock Piano Grieving Funeral Telephones Coffins Juicy Those Grieving Death Poems Grief Comfort Comfort The Grieving Grieving Poems Condolences Poems

Author:W. H. Auden

“Grief never mended no broken bones.”

Grief Broken Bones Broken Bone

Author:Charles Dickens

“The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'”

“I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Night Grief Company Sweet Despair Empty Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Company You Keep

Author:Jon Blais

“I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.”

Feels Years Moments Grief Hundred Stones Bones That Moment Weariness

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”

Wells Body Happens Eye Lying Grief One Day Skins Weight Deeper Bones Wounds Shoulders Heal Hips Openness Sheer Angle Penetrate Geography Texture Your Smile Sharpness Luster

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”

Want Writing Said Grief Cry Trauma Bones

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?”

“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.”

“When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.”

Ifs Body Suffering Dies Grief Broken Sorrow Bones Your Body Skulls Cracked Bruised

Author:Roberto Bolano

“It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.”

Knows Want Needs Children Done Night Interest Grief Despair Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Where You Live

Author:Oriah Dreamer