“A suicide is not a simple death, bringing peace with it. It haunts; it asks a question.”— May Sarton, amazon.com
“Ain't no shame in holding on to grief... As long as you make room for other things too.”— Andre Royo, Bubbles, hbo.com
“I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, look: she existed.”— Meghan O'Rourke, amazon.com
“One more day One more time One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied. But then again I know what it would do Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.”— Diamond Rio, youtube.com
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'”— Maya Angelou, poemhunter.com
“… And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.”— Pablo Neruda, thoughtcatalog.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”— Alphonse de Lamartine, amazon.com
“'Does it hurt?' The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. 'Dying? Not at all,' said Sirius. 'Quicker and easier than falling asleep.'”— JK Rowling, amazon.com
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.com
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”— Samuel Johnson, thoughtcatalog.com
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”— Emily Dickinson, thoughtcatalog.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, thoughtcatalog.com
“I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.com
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”— Anne Frank, thoughtcatalog.com