Felt Quote by Leni Zumas

It's almost weirder sometimes when you don't have a full life experience with someone's ups and downs, knowing what they've been through. Sometimes a…

— Ted Leo

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

— Mark Twain

“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,”…

— Sol Luckman

The changes that have been made in my life have happened because I've looked in great and horrific depth at my own thoughts, and…

— Simon Amstell

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

— Laura van den Berg

Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend…

— Martha Beck

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of…

— Sarah Manguso

Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific,…

— Victoria Redel

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their…

— Irvin D. Yalom

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was…

— Margaret Mahy

Its natural to have a deep sense of loss when someone close to us dies.But we should also look for ways to enter into…

— Mariane Corbito

“It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. But for…

— Marie Lu