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“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”

— Sophocles, Antigone, Share via Whatsapp

“Try to love your grief, maybe it d be gone as everything you have ever liked!”

— Ahmed Khaled Toufiq, Share via Whatsapp

“By clinging on to grief so implacably, he had made himself impervious to life.”

— Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Coldness of Objects, Share via Whatsapp

“What he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can bear no more loss.”

— Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Share via Whatsapp

“What s even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you re diseased or something.”

— Denise Jaden, Losing Faith, Share via Whatsapp

“For a moment I did not even see the king, I saw only the two of us, bound to be each other’s grief”

— Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl, Share via Whatsapp

“I live to shew his power, who once did bring My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing”

— George Herbert, Share via Whatsapp

“Behind the glass, underneath the cellophane, remains your final summer – sweet And meaningless, and not to come again.”

— Philip Larkin, Share via Whatsapp

“For I did not know which was harder to bear: The echo of her passing, or the long silence that followed.”

— James Islington, An Echo of Things to Come, Share via Whatsapp

“The house would never be the same again. Her grief painted it with hues of grey.”

— Ellen Read, Broken, Share via Whatsapp

“In his experience, the evil lived on while the innocent died.”

— Cinda Williams Chima, Share via Whatsapp

“Grief is love turned into an eternal missing”

— Rosamund Lupton, Sister, Share via Whatsapp

“When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”

— Rosamund Lupton, Sister, Share via Whatsapp

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Share via Whatsapp

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi, Share via Whatsapp

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Share via Whatsapp

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

— Anne Lamott, Share via Whatsapp