#grief

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#walking

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#grief #night #crime

The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My eyes must keep their sight: I dare not be tear-blinded. I must be free to talk Not choked with grief, clear-minded. My mouth cannot betray The anguish that I know. Yes, I'll keep my tears til later: But my grief will never go. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#today

Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days. ↗

— Dana Fuller Ross

#independence

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#depression #grief #violence

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#process #sorrow #observation

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. ↗

— Sarah Waters

#mourning #moving-on #sadness #water

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 whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#grief #loss #mourning #tragedy #war

...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#missing #rosamund-lupton #sister #love