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Source: The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

“Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.”

Death Growth Loss Grief Personal Growth Betrayal Personal Development Grieving Abandon Opportunities Betray Possibilities Invitations Abandonment Possible Door Invitation Losses

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.”

Grief Laughter Grieving Bearable Lighten Timeving

Book:The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

Source: The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

“I feel . . . low," I say, looking away. "Like, literally low. Flat. It's not . . . sad, exactly. I mean, sad too, obviously. But that's a different feeling, I guess." She nods. "There's a reason it's called 'depression' and not 'chronic sadness' or 'manic sorrow.'" She picks up a foam stress ball and squeezes it, leaving imprints of her fingers. "Depressions like these are holes left behind by a physical force. With mental depression, the force can be chemical or situational or both, but it doesn't just make a hole--it presses you into one that feels impossible to escape.”

Depression Grieving

Book:After the Fall

Source: After the Fall

“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head,” Winslow said. “Just for a moment. Then you’d know what all I can’t find how to say.”

Loss Grief Grieving Emotional Pain Inarticulate Emotional Wounds

Book:Volt

Source: Volt

“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity--he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find....”

Love Loss Grief Grieving Mourning Lost Love

Book:Widow: Stories

Source: Widow: Stories

“When you miss someone, they leave a person-shaped hole behind in the world that nothing can ever fill. If you don't keep thinking about them, the edges of the hole shrink and fade. You can't let go or the last of them disappears.”

Death Grieving

Book:Devine Intervention

Source: Devine Intervention

“We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.”

Grieving Laine S Fave

Book:Ashes and Ice

Source: Ashes and Ice

“The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People you’d once considered friends would turn their heads in church or cross to another side of a shopping mall to avoid the contamination of your suffering. “You might imagine I’m coping day by day,” she murmured. “But it’s more a case of hour by hour, and during my worst times, minute by minute.”

Grief Grieving Coping Suffring

Book:The Voice I Just Heard

Source: The Voice I Just Heard

“The train blows through town delivering reality, slapping my face and screaming, “You are alone” Rose colored memories drown, taking their last breath.”

Death Memories Loss Grief Sadness Loneliness Depression Grieving

Book:Magic in the Backyard

Source: Magic in the Backyard

“I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you. And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you. No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) With you (This world is only gonna break your heart) What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way. What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you. What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way. What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you and, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) With you.”

Grieving Broken Heart Sadness Love

Author:Chris Isaak

“The pain of your loss will return. Less, but still considerable. I know you've worked hard to release it, but it can still take hold of you. I will help you sing away the fury, but I will not bear it for you.”

Loss Grief Grieving

Book:Wisp of a Thing

Source: Wisp of a Thing

“He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino activists—a time when a hundred flowers bloomed and a thousand thoughts contended in a movement that did not know yet the price of betrayal from within. But flowers wilt and thoughts give way to rancor with the passing of years. And so some may grieve not his passing, while others fall to the ground in tears./FOR HORACIO BOY MORALES, JR. (September 11, 1943 – February 29, 2012)”

Revolution Grieving Activists Revolutionary Movement Horacio Boy Morales

Author:Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.”

Grief Enemy Grieving Enemies Adversary Wept

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.”

Grieving Mourning

Book:Rules For Old Men Waiting

Source: Rules For Old Men Waiting

“You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.”

Death Grieving Choice

Book:Sanas Chormaic: Cormac's Glossary

Source: Sanas Chormaic: Cormac's Glossary

“I do not diminish his love for me,' Imogen said. 'I would never do that. I know precisely how much he loved me: as much as he was capable of loving any woman, probably. He loved me somewhat...after his stables, perhaps more than his mother.' 'Oh, Imogen,' Annabel said. 'Why dwell on such a-' 'Grief is like that!' Imogen snapped. 'You can only fool yourself so far.”

Grieving

Book:Kiss Me, Annabel

Source: Kiss Me, Annabel

“It's not her fault,' she said. 'Nobody knows how to grieve in this country. They don't make any noise. Nobody taught them how. I don't want to be that way.”

Grieving

Book:Write Naked

Source: Write Naked

“This is how the soul heals. it thaws out bit by bit, the way the ground warms after a hard winter. you notive the sun or hear the whippoorwill calling across the flats. You sweep your porch, go drink coffee in the shade of the trumpet vines. You have days where you want to lay down and die, but what you learn is this: As long as there's somebody left on this earth who loves you, it's reason enough to stay alive. You don't give in to your broke heart-- you just let the wide, cracked space fill up again.”

Healing Grieving Overcoming Loss Pain

Book:American Pie

Source: American Pie

“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

Grief Grieving Last Times

Book:This Is Where I Leave You

Source: This Is Where I Leave You

“It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, especially if the attachment to 'you' is part of what composes who 'I' am. If I lose you, under these conditions, then I not only mourn the loss, but I become inscrutable to myself. Who 'am' I, without you? When we lose some of these ties by which we are constituted, we do not know who we are or what to do. On one level, I think I have lost 'you' only to discover that 'I' have gone missing as well. At another level, perhaps what I have lost 'in' you, that for which I have no vocabulary, is a relationality that is composed neither exclusively of myself nor you, but is to be conceived as *the tie* by which those terms are differentiated and related.”

Grief Grieving Mourning Grief And Loss

Book:Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Source: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

“It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.”

Grieving Loss Of A Child Grieving Parents Parental Bereavement

Book:Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple

Source: Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple

“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it, and I've thought it to death over the last year. There are parts of my brain that are still tirelessly thinking about it, about her, an entire research and development department wholly dedicated to finding new ways to grieve and mourn and feel sorry for myself. And let me tell you, they're good at what they do down there. So I'll leave them to it.”

Death Grieving Mourning Sadness Lonelyness

Book:How To Talk To A Widower

Source: How To Talk To A Widower

“A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house where he once lived. But he can feel the absences – and feel them as sensation, like a texture that was once at his fingers every day but now is gone and no matter how he gropes or reaches his hand he cannot touch what’s no longer there.”

Love Grief Childhood Youth Experience Grieving Childhood Trauma

Book:Let Him Go

Source: Let Him Go

“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.”

Grief Self Help Grieving Bereavement

Book:What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians

Source: What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians

“Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you have lost. Not exactly, never exactly. We are in it alone.”

Grief Grieving

Book:The Silver Dark Sea

Source: The Silver Dark Sea

“Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in the stars but rather closer to the earth her boots stand upon.”

Love Grief Sadness Determination Longing Grieving Grit Fierceness

Book:Let Him Go

Source: Let Him Go

“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me that so many things that I thought were important, externals, etc., all of that is irrelevant. You lose a parent, you suddenly realize what a slender thing life is, how easily you can lose those you love. Then out of that comes a new simplicity and that is why sometimes all the pain and the tears lift you to a much higher and deeper joy when you say to the bad times, "I will not let you go until you bless me.”

Life Joy Loss Grief Importance Simplicity Parents Grieving Mourning Bereavement Relevance

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“...grieving needs space, and it needs so much time. And it needs to be done; it cannot be trodden round or not looked in the eye.”

Grieving

Book:The Silver Dark Sea

Source: The Silver Dark Sea

“I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know why I was going, today, to stand in the long cool darkness of St. John of the Divine, but my body knew, as bodies do, what it wanted. I entered the oddly small door of the huge space, and walked without hesitating to the altar I hadn’t consciously remembered, a national memorial for those who died of AIDS, marked by banners and placards. My heart melted, all at once, and I understood why I was there. Because the black current the masseuse had touched wanted, needed, to keep flowing. I’d needed to know I could go on, but I’d also been needing to collapse. Which is what I did, some timeless tear span of minutes sitting on the naked gray stone. A woman gave me the kind of paper napkins you get with an ice cream cone. It seemed to me the most genuine of gifts, made to a stranger: the recognition of how grief moves in the body, leaving us unable to breathe, helpless, except for each other.”

Love Spirit Prayer Loss Grief Kindness Sadness Aids Grieving Mourning Hiv

Book:Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

“Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so many women in their family failed to do it, and she was proud of Kate for fighting her way back. But Eby didn't say anything. She could fix a lot of things, but family wasn't one of them. It was one of the hardest things she'd ever had to come to terms with.”

Important Fighting Family Grieving Fix

Book:Lost Lake

Source: Lost Lake

“There would have been time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.”

Grieving Magbeth

Author:Wiliam Shakspeare

“…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death is as it transliterates us, moving us out of this life into what we can’t know, is kind. I shock myself, writing that. I know that many deaths are anything but gentle. I know people suffer terribly…I know many die abandoned, unseen, their stories unheard, their dignity violated, their human worth ignored. I suspect that the ease of Wally’s death, the rightness of it, the loving recognition which surrounded him, all made it possible for me to see clearly, to witness what other circumstances might obscure. I know, as surely as I know anything, that he’s all right now. And yet. And yet he’s gone, an absence so forceful it is itself a daily hourly presence. My experience of being with Wally… brought me to another sort of perception, but I can’t stay in that place, can’t sustain that way of seeing. The experience of knowing, somehow, that he’s all right, lifted in some kind process that turns at the heart of the world, gives way, as it must, to the plain aching fact that he’s gone. And doubt. And the fact that we can’t understand, that it’s our condition to not know. Is that our work in the world, to learn to dwell in such not-knowing? We need our doubt so as to not settle for easy answers. Not-knowing pushes us to struggle after meaning for ourselves…Doubt’s lesson seems to be that whatever we conclude must be provisional, open to revision, subject to correction by forces of change. Leave room, doubt says, for the unknowable, for what it will never quite be your share to see. Stanley Kunitz says somewhere that if poetry teaches us anything, it is that we can believe two completely contradictory things at once. And so I can believe that death is utter, unbearable rupture, just as I know that death is kind.”

Love Death Hope Grief Grieving Mourning Contradiction Grieving Process

Book:Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.”

Death Grief Grieving Death And Dying Husband And Wife Widows Death And Love Widowhood Widow

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.”

Love Death Relationships Grieving Remorse Regrets Saved A Life

Book:The Details of How We Lived

Source: The Details of How We Lived

“perhaps it only applies in the States, where emotional optimism is a constitutional duty”

Death Grieving Insensitive Irrationalism Overly Optimistic

Author:Julian Barnes

“A sensible girl would not have been crying, grieving for the boy with the magic in his voice and the blues in his eyes, mourning the loss of something that was a lie-a lie-from beginning to end.”

Grieving Blues

Book:The Sorcerer Heir

Source: The Sorcerer Heir

“Imagine going a long time without seeing someone you love. Then after months or years getting the moment to see them and catch up. I think that's what death is like. Going a long time and missing them a lot, more and more each day. No matter how many years go by you miss them just as much as the first day they left. I miss my mom. Its been years. Its easier to manage but I miss her more and more. But I often think of the moment we will meet again and catch up again. In living life going a long time not seeing someone is tough then catching up right where you left off BUT imagine in death how powerful the feeling to see them again must be. Death is getting the chance to catch up and see them again. Experiencing the butterflies and that special high that is felt all over your body. Do not fear death. Embrace it as you do life. In life, love hard! Life moves fast. For when your time comes you have a chance to love hard again and catch up with those that left, those you've missed and those that missed you. Someone is there counting the days to seeing you again. Some you may not expect or some you've missed just as much. Don't fear what you think you're leaving behind. Don't fear at all. For what you leave is temporary, the living will too join you as you wait for them. And, that moment to catch up is worth the wait. You will pick up right where you left off as if time did not pass.”

Life Death Loss Grief Grieving Stages Of Death

Author:Jill Telford

“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .”

Grief Self Help Grieving Bereavement

Book:What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians

Source: What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians

“... he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.”

Death Loss Grief Grieving Grief And Loss

Book:Going Once

Source: Going Once

“I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.”

Life Death Life Lessons Grieving Grief And Loss Grief Inspirational

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.”

Loss Grief Injustice Grieving Grief And Loss Unfair Unfairness Of Life

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“...They all try to see more of her, but she hides herself away. It is not how Kitty would grieve. She, if she had to, would grieve wildly - with noise, mucus, paint on the canvas, blustery walks on beaches, curse words and exhausted sleep. But everyone grieves differently just as everyone loves in different ways.”

Grieving

Book:The Silver Dark Sea

Source: The Silver Dark Sea

“Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.”

Grief Grieving

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great justice to my memory by this. But they will never, never realize that it was my single opportunity of existence, as well as of doing my duty, which they are regarding; they will not feel that what to them is but a thought, easily held in those two words of pity, "Poor girl!" was a whole life to me, as full of hours, minutes, and peculiar minutes, of hopes and dreads, smiles, whisperings, tears, as theirs: that it was my world, what is to them their world, and that in that life of mine, however much I cared for them, only as the thought I seem to them to be. Nobody can enter into another's nature truly, that's what is so grievous.”

Life Death Grieving Mourning

Book:Desperate Remedies

Source: Desperate Remedies

“Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully, survivors must bring all of themselves to the prayer: their anger, disappointment, fears, insecurities, and why's. I bring all of me into an encounter with God, aware that nothing in the human experience, or the human response to the ambushes of life, is alien to God.”

Prayer Grief Suicide Grieving

Author:Harold Ivan Smith

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”

“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief…. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance ….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.”

“I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.”

“I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.”

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