“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.”— Adam Johnson, amazon.com
“...and I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”— Robert Southey, goodreads.com
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”— Marcel Poust, amazon.com
“Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a s…”— Ben Okri, amazon.com
“When she was alone by herself she clenched her fists together, and began beating the back of a chair with them. She was like a wounded animal. She hated death; she was furious, outraged, indignant with death, as if it were a living creature. She would not submit to dark and nothingness. She began to…”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, amazon.com
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, goodreads.com
“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“I had forgotten how grief shapes the world around us. Time dulls the effect, but it's still there. Omnipresent.”— Beth Revis, twitter.com