“Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.” — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya Copy Share Image
No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The… — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Understand there’s no right or wrong way to grieve, including anticipatory grief. It’s like the ocean. It ebbs and it flows. There… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was… — Emily Veinglory Copy Share Image
Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Adam Kuambiana umerudi nyumbani ulikotoka, ukiongozwa na imani na mwanga wa wale uliowapenda na kuwapoteza. Hatuwezi kukumbuka kwamba umetutoka bila kukumbuka kwamba… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don't recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“...of course those fridges don't get cold: they're more like coffins that way. But coffins are also just fancy boxes made to… — Mariana Enríquez Copy Share Image
Mourning your abstinence from junk food is like mourning the loss of an enemy who would happily see you die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
