“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com
“It's not in the moment of death where all the value gets created or lost. To me, the value is in enabling the life, all of the finite moments that we have on this planet together.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“We are told stories as children to help us bridge the abyss between waking and sleeping. We tell stories to our own children for the same purpose. When I find myself in danger -- caught on a stuck ski-lift in a blizzard -- I immediately start telling myself stories. I tell myself stories when I am i…”— John Cheever, amazon.com
“Even when death has taken an exceptional man, it is the common things which touch us.”— Richard Wilbur, amazon.com
“I hope to honor your memory in the way I live and love. And I hope to make you proud, even if you’re no longer here to see it.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Time ain’t nothing if it ain’t fast taking everything that you ever had. And giving nothing in return but a cold bed in a quiet earth”— Chris Cornell, open.spotify.com
“I’m never going to forget you and I’m never going to stop talking about you. I love you, and it doesn’t matter that you’re gone, because I’m going to keep your memory alive.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“People on their deathbeds don't talk about what they obtained or were awarded. They talk about their loved ones or their regrets—that seems to be the menu.”— Brad Pitt, gq.com
“People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder have intrusive thoughts (or images) that bother them. These can be thoughts about making mistakes, harming someone, contamination, disease, religious preoccupation, fears of impulses or desires, or just about anything that you might consider dangerous, disgu…”— Robert L. Leahy Ph.D., psychologytoday.com
“Until you have spent 30 minutes lining up shampoo bottles in the shower because if you don’t, your mom will be hit by a car, you have no idea what living with OCD is like.”— Hannah Pemberton, huffingtonpost.com
“me: if you're dead you dont have to do homework or get stressed over school so it would eliminate anxiety.”— Unknown, aureus.co.vu
“It’s thoughts like that that trigger the need to fix or clean. It is not because something not being the way you prefer it, bugs you. It is because something terrible will happen if you do not fix it, and the thought does not go away until you make sure what ever it is is the way it has to be. Then…”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes, I’ll even cancel plans, because I feel like something bad is going to happen if I leave the house. The worst case scenario is always the first scenario I think of.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com