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“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
“Whatever he goes through, I feel. Whatever I go through, he feels. It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, ...”
“I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.”
“I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front of me, all crusty from rolling in the sand, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay and eyes th...”
“By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another’s solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something deeper than any human being can give.”
“In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.”
“Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and recon...”
“Your whole world ceases to exist and you're nothing but a shell of a person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it her way, me in mine, and you in yours," he said, lifting his hand off of John's...”
“All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to put up your chin and tell yourself you are strong. And if you begin to weaken, hold on to me. T...”
“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, an...”
“It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.”
“Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.”
“The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.”
“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.”
“He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories. He would banish that bitch from his heart if it meant cut...”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of water.”
