“Fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”— Lucy Kalanithi, amazon.com
“When you see death, things change. ‘It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,’ I told her. ‘I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com
“You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around -- beds, pillows, arms, laps.”— Patti Davis, amazon.com
“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.”— Hilary Thayer Hamann, amazon.com
“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”— James Patterson, amazon.com
“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be g…”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent wh…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now ha…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.com
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for grant…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com