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“A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.”

People Helping Inspiration Pain Song Loss Grief Grief And Loss

“Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.”

Way Heart Able Loss Grief Letting Go Grieving

Author:Tara Brach

“There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further, men are that they might have joy. In the eternal perspective, same-gender activity will only bring sorrow and grief and the loss of eternal opportunities.”

Men Might Joy Next Opportunity Loss Grief Wife Perspective Sorrow Activity Husband Eternal Including Gender Units Fullness Posterity Next Life Family Unit

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.”

People Easy Loss Grief Path Trauma Helpful

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our loss and as a way to give something back and memorialize people that are lost. That always makes it far harder to compartmentalize things. As a species, should never get used to tragedy and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening and to celebrate people loving people. We should all be lucky enough to be loved and to love someone in return. That's what this is about.”

People Giving Enough Pain Artist Loss Grief Lucky Tragedy Celebrate

Author:Marc Andreyko

“Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific, one thing I miss with each loss is entirely selfish, I miss the way a particular person saw me, understood me. But part of the challenge of being alive is to remain curious in any circumstance and this has helped me with grief. I want to feel all the contours and contradictions of living.”

Challenges Loss Grief Forever Missing Circumstances Selfish Curious Contradiction

Author:Victoria Redel

“I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than the world I saw reflected around me, and in the lives of the people in my community, and in my family. There was no benevolent God sparing us pain and loss and grief and struggle. If I was going to continue to write about the place where I am from, and the kind of people who live in my community and who are in my family, I owed it to them to be honest with what our lives are like.”

People World Writing Kind Pain Community Loss Grief Struggle Honest My Family Realization Being Honest Benevolent

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion at those times of life when it's so important. And to see and witness those times of grief and love and loss and all those things was such a huge privilege, both in my own personal life, but it also, I think, spills over into my writing. I think the one thing that most novelists have is some degree of emotional intelligence, and if you don't have that, then perhaps you might struggle to be a novelist, because that has to come out somewhere.”

Thinking Writing Important Age Loss Grief Emotion Struggle Emotional Insight Witness Nurse Personal Life Love And Loss

Author:Christie Watson

“The most 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.”

People Way Inspirational Wisdom Pain Beautiful Suffering Found Loss Grief Known Beauty Struggle Overcoming Depth Defeat This Life Grieving Grief And Loss Death Of A Loved One Sensitivity Gentleness Psychiatrist Being Strong Overcoming Challenges Beautiful People Grief And Healing Pain And Suffering Being Beautiful Griefing Always Be Happy You Are Beautiful Day To Day Life Losing A Loved One Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Cancer Patients Your Beautiful Grief And Death Those Grieving World Suffering Grieving A Death Grief Comfort Death And Loss Beautiful Inside Cancer Courage Grief Healing Suffering And Pain Suffering Pain Help With Grief Inspirational Beauty Grief And Hope Pain Suffering Grieving And Healing Pain And Loss Comfort The Grieving Depression Inspirational Grieving Loss Appreciation In Relationships People With Cancer Amazing Beautiful Recovering From Grief Grieving A Loss Grieving And Loss I Am Beautiful Life Is So Beautiful

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The only cure for grief is action.”

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.”

Bits Loss Grief Magic Adversity Grieving Grief And Loss Coping Griefing Grief Loss

Author:Lou Reed

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

Source: Selected poems

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”

Firsts Together Suffering Loss Grief Our Lives Childhood Return Periods Anguish Early Childhood

Book:A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

Source: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.”

People Way Stories Loss Grief Goes On Sorry I'm Sorry Unimaginable Afghan Death And Loss Marveling

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.”

Ifs Knows Feels Important Death Lost Felt Loss Grief Know How Imagine Havens Terrible Useless Violet Sunny Lost Someone

Author:Daniel Handler

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”

Firsts Believe Children Moments Loss Sleep Grief Forever First Time Weight Fugitive Sleeping Child

Author:Anne Michaels

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

“A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Firsts Heart Said Ends Faces Loss Grief Path Greater Fashion Sorrow Despair Gains Rough Shade Clay Giving Back Vessel Crude Wool

Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

“Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”

Loss Grief

Book:Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet

Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet

“All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss.”

Ifs World Values Water Loss Grief Tears Birth Waste Endless Cycles Capture Shed Birth And Death Love And Loss

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”

“Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.”

Men Looks Hate Dies Fighting Evil Can Do Loss Grief Greatness Tears Goes On Bears Disease Weakness Instinct Defeat Look Up Bitterness Recipes Evil Man

Author:Zane Grey

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

People Way Life Inspirational Persons Happens Beautiful Happiness Suffering Found Understanding Loss Grief Compassion Known Beauty Struggle Meditation Self Love Empathy Concern Overcoming Adversity Depth Defeat Appreciation This Life Grieving Most Powerful Grief And Loss Sensitivity Gentleness Inner Beauty Break Up Good Person True Beauty Our Words Beauty Of Life Beautiful People Grief And Healing Being Beautiful Beautiful You Griefing Always Be Happy You Are Beautiful Day To Day Life Losing A Loved One Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Cancer Patients Your Beautiful Happenstance Grief And Death Those Grieving Grieving A Death Grief Comfort Cancer Courage Grief Healing Help With Grief Life Appreciation Inspirational Beauty People With Depression Grief And Hope Grieving And Healing Comfort The Grieving Depression Inspirational Grieving Loss Appreciation In Relationships People With Cancer Amazing Beautiful Healing From Loss Recovering From Grief Grieving A Loss Grieving And Loss Deep Grief I Am Beautiful

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”

Way Sometimes Moments Feelings Pain Next Loss Grief Week Periods Aging Painful Senses Tricks Realization Knees Unexpected Rip Protective

Book:Morning is a long time coming

Source: Morning is a long time coming

“The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.”

Men Kind Stills Different Soul Enough Pain Turns Loss Grief Heard Cry Goodness Clothes Skins Ears Stranger Rage Good Man Grief And Loss Scar Pillow Detectives Deep Inside Badges

Author:John Connolly

“You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.”

Way Feels Real Pain Hurt Loss Love Is Grief Love You Grief And Loss Real Love Deep Down Real Pain

Book:August Magic

Source: August Magic

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”

World I Can Joy Spirit Dies Can Do Loss Grief Steps Forever Sad And Love Breaths Grieving Going Away My Sister Daring Emulate Griefing Those Grieving Never Stop Loving

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”

Humans Littles Long Enough Running Loss Grief Cutting Conditions Cry Mines Weakness Mourning Human Condition

Book:Iris and Ruby: A Novel

Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel

“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”

Inspirational Children Littles Law Loss Grief Events Kings Eternal Size Grieving Proportion Crowns Dolls

Book:The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

Source: The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

“We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.”

Want Believe Stills Real Pain Values Turns I Believe Loss Grief Sad Standing Clouds Grieving Silver Standing There Real Value Being Sad

Author:John Green

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

Past Loses Loss Grief

Book:Change of Heart: A Novel

Source: Change of Heart: A Novel

“The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.”

“let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.”

Feels Happens Form Black Realizing Loss Grief Fire Regret Like You Sorrow Taste Angel Let Me Fingers Spread Cooks Substance Thick Ashes Dip Dissolving Syrup

Author:Jodi Picoult

“If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.”

Ifs Men Doe Pain Dies Waiting Hurt Loss Grief Fashion Wounds Heal Gray Accustomed Numb Bewilderment Gray Days

Book:Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

Source: Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

“Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.”

Mother Hurt Loss Grief Missing Sad Hearing Chests Needles Missing Someone

Author:Veronica Roth

“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”

World Whole Loses Loss Grief Enemy Sad Whole World World War Ii What You Love

Author:Kristina McMorris

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”

World Ideas Loss Grief Huge Goes On Sorrow Tragedy No Idea Seconds Bereavement Weird Things Devastating Loss

Author:James Patterson

“For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.”

Ifs Moments Loss Grief Cutting Rounds Dare Legs Circles Repeats Emptiness Phases Novelty Emerging Spirals Grief Observed Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

Doe Change Loss Grief Grieving Fault In Our Stars Death Grief

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

Ifs Important Real Done Remember Felt Hours Memories Loss Pleasure Grief Taken Losing

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.”

Giving Years Littles Dream Law Life Is Turns Justice Loss Grief Sun Balance One Day Gains Twists Deprivation Drought Years Of Life Rainfall

Author:Faith Baldwin

“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?”

Ends Loss Grief Hundred Overcoming Bitter Grief And Loss Hounds

Book:Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

Source: Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

“You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.”

Way Pain Loss Walks Grief Path Feet Daughter Betrayal Trials Forests Straight Path

Book:Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.”

Men Firsts Ends Age Lasts Loss Grief Saws Fate Strange First Time Accounts Lays Wounds Weariness

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.”

Want Feels Made Remember Used Fall Felt Loss Grief Ache

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.”

Ifs Heart Fall Loss Grief Wall Cold Barriers Too Deep Cold Heart

Book:The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

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