“I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“It feels weird, being out in the real world again. Around people just living their lives like normal. Their presence is oppressive.… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“For it is when a man sees himself in this unutterable hopelessness that the Holy Spirit reveals unto him the Lord Jesus… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Why is this happening? Perhaps as you climb into bed alone, you find yourself longing for a warm body or the sense… — Robert E. Emery Copy Share Image
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“There are friends, I think we can't imagine living without. People who are sisters to us, or brothers. Jimmy was one of… — Julie Reece Deaver Copy Share Image
People do not like the tragic side of life. They deny pain and suffering as a facet of life. Even when someone… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“ This is life. Learning to love through loss. Seeking warm pockets in the bitter cold. Finding the worth of a smile… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Lying in the hotel bed, Hector conceded that, all through ’93, ’94, and ’95, an ever-widening river of good data, mixed with… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Why should I be with you if there's pain and sorrow? Why should I dream with you if there's no tomorrow? Now… — Sheryl Caparas Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“What do you think all of us are here for? Certainly not to seek happiness. We are not here to enjoy. We… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Despite Langdon's assurances that the keystone had nothing to do with her past, Sophie still sensed something deeply personal entwined within this… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“My moods were a slingshot; after being locked-down and anesthetized for years my heart was zinging and slamming itself around like a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“As you release, align and commit to your life’s purpose, you begin to access more of your lightbody. And as we birth… — Lee-Anne Peters Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he… — Helmuth Plessner Copy Share Image
“I do believe you think what now you speak, but what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“It made him sad, realising that their smell was going to be gone for good one day. Even if they kept all… — Pamela Harju Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
“I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away by the beautiful blue sky.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
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