#grief

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#grief

it was his own grief turned magically to song ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#grief

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours. ↗

— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#grief-inspirational #grieving #loss #love #experience

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#death-anxiety #grief #psychology #staring-at-the-sun #death

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#darkness #grief #imagination

Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out...though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#love #sadness #love

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water. ↗

— John Green

#friendship #grief #love #death

And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies. ↗

— Nancy Stephan

#grief #death

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#afterlife #death #ghost #grief #loss

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ↗

— Mark Twain

#divide #full #get #grief #itself