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“Days are not the way they were when he was alive.”

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“Each day for me is filled with things that I used to look forward to in the morning. Now they feel empty and stressful. Handling my life by myself is sad for me. I liked being part of a team. I liked having someone else to share my day with every night.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Thiele

“no matter how prepared you are you're never ready”

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Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“Once over dinner I told her, of course he loved you! how could you doubt it? and she burst into tears, But he died!”

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Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“Our grief mirrors our love.”

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Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“You are my emergency contact. This is the emergency! My life is burning down!”

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Author:Elizabeth von Transehe

“Living in Greece I learned why so many women wore black: a year for parents, for a husband forever, telling the neighbors take care of me, I am weak with grief, I have turned to ash inside.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“I don't need again to learn the bitter lesson that everything I love is a flame between two fingers, no act undone, no word unsaid.”

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Author:Donna Hilbert

“She says I don't know what to say, as if she'd been raised in the woods by wolves.”

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Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“It's hard to be a widow. People are afraid of me. They don't know what to say. Who knows what to say? I don't know what to say.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Alison Keeler Carrillo

“All moments are hard because I am constantly reminded that he is gone. What do you say in the face of such a brutal reality? Say, I'm so-o-o sorry, and then touch me.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Alison Keeler Carrillo

“I won't repeat the dream in which you leave me. Let's just say I know the world, how it alters in an instant, that I awaken sick in remorse and dread.”

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Author:Donna Hilbert

“No one knows you're gone. The police still want donations from you And they summoned you for jury duty. The Economist wants you to take advantage of an early renewal offer And so does National Geographic. An acquaintance asks how you are doing (I shake my head) And a new friend wonders About your picture on my phone. They didn't know you. Because if they did, They would know That it is a different world now.”

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Author:Elizabeth von Transehe

“We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.”

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Book:Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

Source: Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you.”

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Book:Jagged Little Pieces

Source: Jagged Little Pieces

“The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.”

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Book:Jagged Little Pieces

Source: Jagged Little Pieces

“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)”

“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)”

Source: The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)”

Source: The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

“I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone …. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.”

“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you don’t know how to properly reattach them—a doll does not repair itself. So you hug those brittle fragments to your chest until you simply cannot hug anymore. Until you’ve had to leave so many behind that you no longer remember what it is you’re missing.”

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Book:Where Madness Roosts

Source: Where Madness Roosts

“People ask me how I am, and I say "ok," meaning "as well as an be expected," but do they know about the bottomless pool of sorrow? The anchor that drags me downward?”

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Book:The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“I cry a lot these days. I am a pool of sadness, and I wonder at its depth. I sometimes imagine a bottomless pit that I will fall into in this despair I feel. Is there a limit to sorrow?”

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Book:The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Some small rational part of me realized I was in deep shock. It repeated the fact to me again and again. I did not want to think of what I saw. I did not want to know what had happened here. I did not want to know what any of this meant.”

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Book:The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.”

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Book:The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“You're not scared. You're just grieving. No one tells you humans that your sorrow feels like fear.”

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Book:The Deal of a Lifetime

Source: The Deal of a Lifetime

“Perhaps there is no such thing as a bottomless pool of grief. Maybe grief is a desert.”

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Book:The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“Sometimes my eyes tear up without warning, and I suddenly realize that I am missing him fiercely in a seemingly infinite moment of sadness that is all about daughterness. Lately I have recognized that I will always have this part of missing him deep inside me, or maybe that is just part of growing up. Growing up is an ongoing Journey, and grieving is one of the feeling we are likely to encounter on The Path.”

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Book:The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it. You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart. How can you? He has it.”

“If you don't understand why somebody is grieving for so long over something, consider yourself fortunate that you do not understand.”

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Book:KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

“Are you Afraid of Sadness?" In an old interview with a famous and talented Iraqi actress, the interviewer asked her: “Why are you afraid of sadness?” The actress responded: “I am afraid of it because it quickly takes you to a place from which you can never return.” And exactly as she was answering, an insightful viewer could notice a sadness on her face indicating that the famous and talented actress herself wasn’t really present in the interview for sadness had long taken her with no return… [Original poem published in Arabic on November 19, 2023 at ahewar.org]”

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Author:Louis Yako

“I find it harder and harder to talk about. It’s the frustration. I wish people had been this interested back then – we might have her with us.”

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Book:Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

Source: Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“The fact that I could no longer see him became clearer by the minute. Yet, the clearer it became, the less it felt like fact.”

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Author:Choi Eunyoung

“I can see that you're mourning the loss of many things, but I want to help you. I want to help you discover your potential. Don't you want that? Do you really want to sit in this room, crying about what you could have been or done?”

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Book:The Legend of Acacia Vitak

Source: The Legend of Acacia Vitak

“Your mother buried me a long time ago and believed me when I say that I cried and still cry for this death every day.”

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Book:What if Stars Don't Die

Source: What if Stars Don't Die

“For some reason, it never occurred to me that the jaws of death could touch someone next to me. Never once did I think the people whom I cared about could simply cease to exist. Or what would be the consequences of it.”

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Book:What if Stars Don't Die

Source: What if Stars Don't Die

“Illness affects everybody and alters relationships. When we receive grim medical news regarding a loved one, whom do we cry for first, for the injured party or for our own loss? The closer an ill person is to us, the more difficult it is to view their plight primarily in terms of their own misfortune. When a person we love suffers, we suffer as a collective group; we each bear part of the emotional pain.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“But hers was a strange heart, sad in its very nature, and she could never weep and ease it as other women do, for her tears never brought her comfort.”

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Book:The Good Earth

Source: The Good Earth

“{She} considered mentioning...how she, to, was all alone. But it didn't matter. So many stupid ways to live and die. She felt a shift inside herself at the thought, a letting go...she had reached a limit now and was moving into something new.”

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Book:Eveningland: Stories

Source: Eveningland: Stories

“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV, always blooming in her at unexpected moments, and even on the move, scuffing down the hall toward Doodle's room, the thought of evading it called it into being. Sadness. The word itself didn't do the feeling justice. What she felt was a more complicated alchemy of emotion, equal parts grief and loneliness and longing, with measures of resentment and self-pity drizzled in.”

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Author:Michael Knight

“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”

“It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs….. They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all.”

“I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.”

“When someone is grieving, you don’t have to say anything. Just be present. Be nonjudgmental. Let them cry, scream, or sit in silence. You don't have to fix them.”

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Book:Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

“Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely alleys, secret locations and sometimes public places that are out of reach to those who seem to care.”

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Book:Behind the Hospital

Source: Behind the Hospital

“Over dinner, we mostly talk about Henry being gone a year. I tell her what someone told me in Italy: that grief is fruitful because it gives perspective and a sense of scale. Winnie says that's bollocks. Says that loss begets fear of loss. Says she likes the spare ribs though.”

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Book:The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

Source: The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

“May all your tears from grief water the flowers of hope, as though the more the tears, the more the flowers'll grow.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“My dear, we do not move on from grief; we move through it.”

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Book:Water Lily Dance

Source: Water Lily Dance

“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but suddenly seems unfamiliar, light. I have felt so heavy for so long. At first I felt odd- as if I shouldn’t be feeling this lightness, that familiar little catch of pleasure in the heart which is inexplicable, though a lovely passage of notes or the splendidly turned petal of a tulip has triggered it. It’s my buoyancy, part of what keeps me alive: happy, suddenly with the concomitant experience of a sonata and the motion of the shadows of leaves. I have the desire to be filled with sunlight, to soak my skin in as much of it as I can drink up, after the long interior darkness of this past season, the indoor vigil, in this harshest and darkest of winters, outside and in.”

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Book:Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

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