"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."

Grief, Emotion, Truth, Learning

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"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."

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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

"Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go.Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Grief, Loss, Water, Emotion

"Grief leads you to believe that life will never be ordinary again, and it never really will be for it is made extraordinary as it is touched and transformed by our greatest loves and deepest losses."

Kate McGahan, American Author

Grief, Life, Ordinary, Love

"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

"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Grief, Hope, Perspective, Emotion

"Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Grief, Family, Humor, Death

"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

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

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Grief, Community, Sorrow, Connection

"O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!"

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Grief, Family, Death, Emotion

"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

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

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"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

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"Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?"

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"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."

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"Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty."

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"A fearful man is always hearing things."

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