Grief Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again…

— Mary Gaitskill

“it’s full of the remains of those who tried to flee. Some were incinerated entirely. But others, probably overcome with smoke, escaped the worst…

— Suzanne Collins

“I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin?”

— Charles Dickens

“And as with any harsh journey, not everything survived.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“...but I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as…

— Nina Sankovitch

“...but he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“We find it hard to accept that sometimes death and destruction are the only solutions if we want to survive.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“it. I was venturing into a wilderness many had explored before me, crossing the threshold separating those who had killed from those who had…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”

— Madeline Miller

“If everything was reduced to surviving, there’d be no more room for living.”

— Robert Chazz Chute

“The crying wailed, somewhere beneath the planks. Several sweeps of the light showed that the cellar was otherwise deserted. Though the face mouthed behind…

— Ramsey Campbell