"The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow."

Grief, Community, Sorrow, Connection

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"The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow."

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"To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,-Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Grief, Despair, Fate, Future

"My body is cracking from the pain I have swallowed so Many times, heaving with sobs I can no longer suppress, my dignity dissolving in my tears, the agony of these past few days ripping my skin to shreds."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Grief, Pain, Emotion, Suffering

"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

"Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Grief, Death, Loss, Decision

"He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Grief, Loss, Memory, Dream, Emotion

"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Grief, Guilt, Pain, Emotion

"But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Despair, Sorrow

"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

"Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Grief, Pain, Emotion, Suffering

"The inletour friend looks as he didwhen we first knew him,and until I wake I believeI will die of grief, for I knowthat this boy grew into a manwho was a faithful friendwho died."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Grief, Memory, Loss, Friendship

Explore more quotes by Cormac McCarthy

"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"

Mortality

"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."

Existence

"It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change."

History

"A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound."

Mystery

"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."

Forgiveness

"If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise."

Morality

"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."

Honor

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

War

"His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep."

Mind

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

War