"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

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"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

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

John Green, American Author

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"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

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"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

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"We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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