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Grief Quotes

"The child inside me wouldn't stop crying. Every time it loses something so important to it. A person or a thing it loves the most, I pretend like nothing happened. But I hear it sobbing helplessly inside me. And the pathetic part of all this is, It neither grows up nor dies. Every time I stand in front of a mirror, it stares at me through my eyes. With its tear-stained face and that intense eyes that rip my ribs apart and the cry of it echoes through every room of my soul."

"The child inside me wouldn't stop crying. Every time it loses something so important to it. A person or a thing it loves the most, I pretend like nothing happened. But I hear it sobbing helplessly inside me. And the pathetic part of all this is, It neither grows up nor dies. Every time I stand in front of a mirror, it stares at me through my eyes. With its tear-stained face and that intense eyes that rip my ribs apart and the cry of it echoes through every room of my soul."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Grief, Loss, Childhood, Emotion

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"When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw."

"When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Memory, Pain

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"The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die."

"The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Grief, Loss, Love, Memory, Death

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

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

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Grief, Family, Humor, Death

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"How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a pair of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell."

"How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a pair of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Emotion, Truth

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"A mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God."

"A mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Grief, Loss, Faith, Life

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"Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception."

"Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Family, Truth, Emotion

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"My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful."

"My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Grief, Regret, Loss, Truth, Happiness

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"For in this world of ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely grief."

"For in this world of ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely grief."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Grief, Decay, Beauty, Life

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"Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?"

"Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Language, Suffering, Communication

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"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters."

"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters."

John Green, American Author

Grief, Death, Friendship, Loneliness

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"She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. That she had managed to keep it inside her this long was astounding to James. He thought of pushing open the half-closed door and kneeling before his wife, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and helping her upstairs. He raised his hand, stroking the wood of the door, planning to say something to calm her. But what wisdom could he offer Gus, when he could not even heed it himself? James walked upstairs again, got into bed, covered his head with a pillow. And hours later, when Gus crept beneath the sheets, he tried to pretend that he did not feel the weight of her grief, lying between them like a fitful child, so solid that he could not reach past it to touch her."

"She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. That she had managed to keep it inside her this long was astounding to James. He thought of pushing open the half-closed door and kneeling before his wife, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and helping her upstairs. He raised his hand, stroking the wood of the door, planning to say something to calm her. But what wisdom could he offer Gus, when he could not even heed it himself? James walked upstairs again, got into bed, covered his head with a pillow. And hours later, when Gus crept beneath the sheets, he tried to pretend that he did not feel the weight of her grief, lying between them like a fitful child, so solid that he could not reach past it to touch her."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Marriage, Emotion, Distance

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"Nehemia was gone. That vibrant, fierce, loving soul; the princess who had been called the Light of Eyllwe; the woman who had been a beacon of hope-just like that, as if she were no more than a wisp of candlelight, she was gone.When it had mattered most Celaena hadn't been there.Nehemia was gone."

"Nehemia was gone. That vibrant, fierce, loving soul; the princess who had been called the Light of Eyllwe; the woman who had been a beacon of hope-just like that, as if she were no more than a wisp of candlelight, she was gone.When it had mattered most Celaena hadn't been there.Nehemia was gone."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Hope, Light, Despair

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"A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember."

"A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Grief, Mind, Heart, Pain, Memory

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"When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us."

"When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Grief, Love, Loss, Memory, Shadow

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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."

"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

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"She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and she saw him standing behind her. With that smile he always had. She touched his reflection and turned around to hug him just to see no one there. She turned back around and looked at the mirror, there he was still standing with that smile. She fell on her knees and said in a feeble voice "come back"."

"She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and she saw him standing behind her. With that smile he always had. She touched his reflection and turned around to hug him just to see no one there. She turned back around and looked at the mirror, there he was still standing with that smile. She fell on her knees and said in a feeble voice "come back"."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Grief, Love, Loss, Memory

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"The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it."

"The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Grief, Peace, World, End

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"I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time."

"I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Grief, Pain, Healing, Truth

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"I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,And "cancer of the pancreas" to her."

"I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,And "cancer of the pancreas" to her."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Parenting, Memory

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"Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both."

"Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Grief, Regret, Truth, Inspirational, Happiness

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"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."

"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Grief, Mastery, Life, Emotion

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"Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

"Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Grief, Regret, Truth, Life, Power

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"Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men."

"Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Grief, Regret, Truth, Emotion, Today

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"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."

"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."

John Green, American Author

Grief, Unfairness, Love, Death, Pain

"The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns."

"The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Grief, Regret, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom

"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."

"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Grief, Time, Healing, 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."

"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

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

"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

"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."

"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

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

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Grief, Sadness, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

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