“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.comTagged: Life, Emotion, Trying, Grief, Pain
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Loss, Heartbreak
“The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens.”— Beyoncé, marieclaire.co.ukTagged: Reality, Loss, Confidence, strength, Letting Go
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Love, Belonging, Being Alone, Pain
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Emptiness, Loss, Love, Life
“Sometimes you’re going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there’s nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Letting Go, On Letting Go, When Someone Leaves, Losing The One You Love, Learning To Let Go
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Grief, Perseverence, Death
“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”— R. M. Drake, facebook.comTagged: Love, Emptiness, Break Up, Moving On
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.comTagged: Poetry, Writing, Literature, Pain, Sad
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradics.tumblr.comTagged: Spilled Ink, Poetry, Love, Heartbreak, Break Up
“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, books.google.comTagged: Loss, Pain, Healing, Broken Heart
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”— José N. Harris, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Crying, Weakness, strength
“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.”— China Miéville, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Pain, Healing, Grief
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”— Vicki Harrison, books.google.comTagged: Grief, Pain, Suffering
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Loss
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Sorrow, Pain
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”— Libba Bray, amazon.comTagged: Crying, Tears, Sadness
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Time, Love, Loss, Pain, Grief
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, caring
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”— James Baldwin, amazon.comTagged: Hate, Pain, Suffering, Grief
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.comTagged: Life, Damage, Pain, Healing