... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
Nathan. I can't believe you would just leave like that. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE. You didn't deserve to be bullied.… — Me Copy Share Image
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
“He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
He's a very good to me, We never keep secret from eachother. Except that he failed to inform me that he will… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
“If I believe, truly believe our souls are meant to cross paths, in each and every life, traversing millennia and repeating this… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
“Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginning what couldn't happen. What couldn't happen didn't. The enterprise is abandoned. But half… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
