"After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Grief, Truth, Life, Love

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"After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us."

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"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

Society, Truth, Social, Judgment, Reality

"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

Desire, Sex, Love, Psychology

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

Health, Relationship, Survival, Risk

"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

Religion, God, Belief, Faith, Humor

"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

Writing, Truth, Fame, Identity

"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

Technology, Internet, Class, Provocation, Society

"Not everything happens for a reason, we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves."

Philosophy, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Life

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"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

John Green, American Author

Grief, Revelation, Change, Emotion

"And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Grief, Loss, Despair, Family

"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Grief, Sadness, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Grief, Memory, Death, Presence

"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Grief, Silence, Decay, Emotion

"I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Grief, Love, Loss, Waiting, Memory

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Grief, Nothing, Past

"I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Grief, Memory, Mortality, Loss

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Grief, Suicide, Family, Dignity, Loss

"There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Life, Change

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"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

"Some men do not know the father of 'their' children."

"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."

"We seldom look up to the person, we usually look up to their persona."

"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Not everything happens for a reason, we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves."

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"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

"And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to."

"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

"I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories."

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."