“The pain, their loss it’s all I have left of them.”— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“Stress can ruin everyday of your life, dying can only ruin one.”— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“If I went missing, my body never recovered, would you move on or devote your life to looking for me?”— Tatiana, pairedlife.com
“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as apart of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature… We’re not.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. 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…”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.com
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”— Jorge Luis Borges, amazon.com
“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”— Maggie O'Farrell, amazon.com
“Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifes…”— Jillian Michaels, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“We must remember that even though we would sometimes like life to stop, it will never stop for anybody or anything. Continue on your life and honor of your loved one not only this holiday season, but every day of your life.”— Jenna Lowthert, thoughtcatalog.com
“We don’t know who might not be present next holiday season, it is imperative that we foolishly adore every single person with all of our might, we must take in every moment knowing the gift it truly is, and we must let them know how much we love them while we still can.”— Leena Sanders, thoughtcatalog.com