#loss

She was brave from excess of grief ↗

— Edith Hamilton Mythology

#bravery #courage #grief #loss #niobe

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope. ↗

— Amy Reed

#disease #life #loss #pain #life

Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such things have almost never had to get over anything. Or at least not anything that was genuinely, mind-fuckingly, soul-crushingly life altering. Some of those people believe they’re being helpful by minimizing your pain. Others are scared of the intensity of your loss and so they use their words to push your grief away. Many of those people love you and are worthy of your love, but they are not the people who will be helpful to you when it comes to healing the pain of your daughter’s death. They live on Planet Earth. You live on Planet My Baby Died. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#pain #beauty

You can't just make me different and then leave ↗

— John Green

#death #driving #drunk #dying #loss

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#greatest #heaven #hell #lie #loss

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. ↗

— Joe Hill

#characters #loss-of-faith #love #women #faith

In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#breathing #emma-thomas #loss #love #reason-to-breathe

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

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. ↗

— Robert Southey

#cannot #friend #heal #like #limb

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. ↗

— Renae Jones

#cancer #circumstances #death #dying #faith