"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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"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."

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"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."

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"He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy."

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"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

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"And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much as usual--I loath the slightest effort. Not only writing but even reading a letter is too much."

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"Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died."

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"Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly."

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