“There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Do not weep but once, and a long time then Thereafter eat till your stomach spills over No more! you’ll cry too full for your eyes to leak * The words will wait”— Kevin Young, amazon.com
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“A good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“In the future, your relationships have all ended. Your body is dirt. Your possessions are buried, burned, or recycled after eons have passed. In the big picture of time, you’ve already lost everything. Fear of loss is clinging to what is already gone.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.com
“The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens.”— Beyoncé, marieclaire.co.uk
“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us”— Brian Jacques, goodreads.com
“And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet Rings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you For the rest of your life when you're ready”— Neutral Milk Hotel, amazon.com
“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com
“Only then did I realize that during the three weeks that had passed between taking the taxi to Lenox Hill, on the fourteenth of June, and receiving the results of the full-body PET scan, on the eighth of July, I had allowed this year’s most deeply blue nights to come and go without my notice. What d…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I have a growing queue of things I know will make you laugh and I don’t know where to put them.”— Jon Sands, exceptindreams.livejournal.com
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com