Disillusionment Quote by Carmen Maria Machado

“She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living…

— Tess Hardwick

“In the beginning, she had hauted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my…

— John Green

“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being with her,…

— Matt Haig

“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery,…

— Georges Bernanos

“Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought I was…

— Hope Edelman

“She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.”

— Allison Brennan

“I think unconsciously I was afraid that if she asked me how I felt, my unleashed grief and rage would kill us all. In…

— Jean Hegland

“She was always something separate, the girl next door, a light that would always lead me out of the black. She was my saving…

— Karina Halle

“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but…

— Sy Montgomery

“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself…

— Sheila Heti

“She meant absolutely nothing to me. Realizing, suddenly, after so many years, that whatever happens i shall never see her again, I nearly collapsed.…

— Emil M. Cioran

“And I had loved her, I had at least once in my life been capable of that, able to escape my self long enough…

— Wayne Johnston