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“Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.”

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.”

Death Lost Loss Graves Sod

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.”

Lasts Loss Watches Graves Curious Carrie Filling Cemetery Filling Up

Book:I know what I'm worth

Source: I know what I'm worth

“Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.”

Men Years Two Literature Memories Loss Tears Mets Graves Two Years Strife Foe Weeping

Author:Jean Paul

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”

“There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.”

Desire Loss Bears Mark Disappointment Wounds Graves Permanent Gratification

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)