Latest Quotes

“We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."”

— Henry Ward Beecher, The Biblical Illustrator

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.”

— William Blake, "Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field"

“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”

— Ada Louise Huxtable, On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”

— Wallace Stevens, "The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm"

“Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.”

— Rosamund Lupton, Sister: A Novel

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”

— James Dent, via Pinterest

“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”

— Bob Marley, "Sun Is Shining"

“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our pride…”

— Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening Of The Year

“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about.”

— J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 2)

“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”

— Kellie Elmore, via Tumblr

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

— Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments, the Complete Collection: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels; City of Lost Souls; City of Heavenly Fire

“Summer: Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.”

— Unknown, via twitter.com

“I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”

— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand. Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand. Life is good today. Life is good today.”

— Zach Brown Band, "Toes"

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that ar…”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

— Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson: A Novel

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

— José N. Harris, Mi Vida

“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, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”

— Kellie Elmore, via Pinterest