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“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.”

Heart War Grief Race Class Generations Wall Citizens Holes Vietnam Memorial Monument Vietnam War Magnet

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else. As we recognize the presence of Love, we break through the wall of grief that would try to convince us that the dear soul with whom we have learned and loved so much no longer exists, or that she or he cannot speak with us. There is no wall that Love cannot vaporize. We may believe in death, Love doesn't.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”

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Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.”

Years Felt Rooms Grief Doors Wall Block Substance Chests Traps Sour Dense Mazes

Author:Etgar Keret

“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

House Grows Sleep Grief Doors Air Wall Protect Mirrors Forgotten Blow Disappear Rings Chairs Bells Protect You Younger Sister

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“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

“Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.”

Grief Doors Wall Garden

Author:Nancy Byrd Turner