Children Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“What I felt in each instance was sadness, loneliness (the loneliness of the abandoned child of whatever age), regret for time gone by, for…

— Joan Didion

“I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too young to…

— Peter Ackroyd

“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of…

— Courtney M. Privett

“I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure…

— Vaddey Ratner

“Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur…

— Natalie Valdes

“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully…

— George Eliot

“Many people don’t realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with…

— Eckhart Tolle

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

“I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“So many dead, Grace thought in melancholy wonder, and realised, for perhaps the first time, that there were more dead people in the world…

— Mary Hooper

“Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment in their…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh