#grief

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#grief #truth

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#sorrow #community

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving. ↗

— Alexandra Fuller

#grief #grieving #africa

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#grief

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#grief

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#artists #grief #joy #life #life-and-living

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#guilt #guilt

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#healing #magnus-bane #time #will-herondale #grief

It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#grief #pain #grief

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#gratitude #grief