Absence Quote by Gerald Brenan

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not…

— Gerald Brenan

Isn't it amazing how certain friends continue to take and take and take until you say no, then you're the bad guy?

— Nishan Panwar

I never stress over friends. I will continue to do me with or without you.

— Anonymous

“She could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable…

— Liu Cixin

There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

— Charles Bukowski

So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“My friend Gordon Wheeler, who is a psychologist, explains that grief is the reminder of the depth of our love. Without love, there is…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“I could feel their grief as if it were a beast holding us down.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

“No, not just because it’s okay for boys to cry too. But because, Greyson, you are very lucky. Not everyone can feel things as…

— Juliann Garey

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

— Horace

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me…

— Jenny Han

“I’m bound together now in both sadness and hope. I feel grief every day, even if it’s a whisper in the background of my…

— Cheri Davies