Latest Quotes

“Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form.”

— Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”

— John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?”

— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins: A Novel

“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will ‘lessen as time passes,’ but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be abl…”

— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel

“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.”

— Michael Faudet, via twitter.com

“I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you—oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad r…”

— James Whitcomb Riley, Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley - Volume 1

“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you mis…”

— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, The 13th Sign

“There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.”

— Nora Roberts, Rising Tides

“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”

— Stephen King, More Good Words

“Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.”

— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”

— k. d. lang, Summerfling

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

— Anna Quindlen, Every Last One: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

“If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning. They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop.”

— Alan Moore, Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 1

“We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim or passion and follow it to the farthest reaches of our natures. We wanted to live – to die – to burst into flame – to be transformed into angels or explosions. Only the mundane offended us, as if we secretly feared it was our desti…”

— Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter

“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”

— Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home

“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”

— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.”

— Brian Ruckley, Fall of Thanes (The Godless World)

“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart.”

— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. y…”

— Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”

— Carrie Jones, Captivate (Need)