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When someone dies, we tend to cling to their belongings. Our hands linger on the hairbrush they used, we drive the car that was once theirs, smell their scent on the clothing they left behind. Personal items have sentimental value.
—
Ymani Wince
,
Mourning My Mother Helped Me Find Myself
Mourning
Death
Sentimental
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this is where i come from.
everyone i love still lives there.
—
Brenna Twohy
,
A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still
Poetry
Depression
Mourning
Healing
poem
Grief
Loss
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It's okay to hate Prue, Piper. When my parents died, I hated them. Piper, it's okay to be mad at Prue. She left you all alone.
—
Paige Matthews
(Rose McGowan)
,
Charmed
,
Season 4
:
Hell Hath No Fury
Grief
Mourning
Death
Losing A Loved One
angry
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We barely got through the funeral and then everything started to go crazy and we haven't had a chance to mourn yet. And that's just not right.
—
Piper Halliwell
(Holly Marie Combs)
,
Charmed
,
Season 4
:
Again (2)
Grief
Mourning
Losing A Sibling
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A death mask. Is there a reason for a death mask? It is barely a physical resemblance — in death, the muscles so relaxed, the face so without the animating spark. A death mask is almost an intrusion on a beautiful memory. And yet, who could throw away the casting of a loved one? Who would not want to study it longingly, as the distant freight train blows its mournful tone?
—
Log Lady
(Catherine E. Coulson)
,
Twin Peaks
,
Season 2
:
Slaves and Masters
Death Mask
Loved Ones
Mourning
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I have been her daughter for 42 years. Now don't you think she could have taken some of that time to work on accepting me for who I am, rather than mourning every fucking thing that I am not?
—
Carrie 'Big Boo' Black
(Lea DeLaria)
,
Orange Is the New Black
,
Season 3
:
Finger in the Dyke
Acceptance
Mourning
Mothers And Daughters
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Carl Grimes:
It's a strong knot. Clove hitch. Shane taught me. Remember him?
Rick Grimes:
Yeah, I remember him. I remember him every day.
—
Rick Grimes
(Andrew Lincoln)
,
The Walking Dead
,
Season 4
:
After
Mourning
Death Of A Friend
Remembering
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Daryl Dixon:
You know, my mom, she liked her wine. She liked to smoke in bed. Virginia Slims. I was playing out with the kids in the neighborhood. I could do that with Merle gone. They had bikes, I didn't. We heard sirens getting louder. They jumped on their bikes, ran after it, you know, hoping to see something worth seeing. I ran after them, but I couldn't keep up. I ran around a corner and saw my friends looking at me. Hell, I saw everybody looking at me. Fire trucks everywhere. People from the neighborhood. It was my house they were there for. It was my mom in bed burnt down to nothing. That was the hard part. You know, she was just gone. Erased. Nothing left of her. People said it was better that way. I don't know. Just made it seem like it wasn't real, you know?
Carl Grimes:
I shot my mom. She was out. Hadn't turned yet. I ended it. It was real. I'm sorry about your mom.
Daryl Dixon:
I'm sorry about yours.
—
Daryl Dixon
(Norman Reedus)
,
The Walking Dead
,
Season 3
:
Hounded
mothers
Dead Moms
Death
Mourning
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In the end, he was talking about losing our humanity. He said this group was broken. The best way to honor him is to unbreak it. Set aside our differences and pull together, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take control of our lives. Our safety our future. We're not broken. We're gonna prove him wrong. From now on We're gonna do it his way. That is how we honor Dale.
—
Rick Grimes
(Andrew Lincoln)
,
The Walking Dead
,
Season 2
:
Better Angels
Death
Honor
Mourning
humanity
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Everyone either avoids me or they treat me like I'm crazy. I lost my daughter. I didn't lose my mind!
—
Carol Peletier
(Melissa McBride)
,
The Walking Dead
,
Season 2
:
Judge, Jury, Executioner
Mourning
Losing Someone
Daughter and Mother
Losing Your Mind
crazy
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All I wanted after my sister died was to get out of this endless horrific nightmare we live every day. I wasn't hurting anyone else. You took my choice away, Dale. And you expect gratitude? I don't know what to say. I'm not your little girl. I'm not your wife. And I am sure as hell not your problem.
—
Andrea Harrison
(Laurie Holden)
,
The Walking Dead
,
Season 2
:
What Lies Ahead
Suicide
Death
Mourning
Choices
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Sad isn’t even the half of it.
—
Lisa Lucas
,
via twitter.com
Grief
Mourning
Misery
Pain
Sad
Depression
despondency
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And people weren’t lying - you really don’t know what grief is until you know what grief is. I sure didn’t. And the bigger the love, the larger it seems to loom. I’m glad the love was world-filling, but my God, what loss.
—
Lisa Lucas
,
via twitter.com
Grief
Loss
loss of a loved one
Loss Of Someone
Pain
pain in passing
Mourning
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I’ve never really known grief before, and this is a wild, unpleasant, and oddly tender ride. Loss is a beast, but it reminds you how strong we all are. And how much the love of others will keep you.
—
Lisa Lucas
,
via twitter.com
Pain
Grief
Mourn
Mourning
Moving Forward
Living in pain
living in spite of pain
Life
Loss Of Someone
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I hope that being open about mourning my father helps someone else one day. We all share this pain at some point, and even if it gives just one single other person in the universe to be openly bereft, if it gives them comfort: worthwhile.
—
Lisa Lucas
,
via twitter.com
Mourning
Grief
pain of losing someone
pain in loss
Pain
sharing pain
Life
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I also think many of you are quick to say strange things when a professionally successful person says they are having a hard time. There is lots of “but you’re doing so well” as if you have any idea what someone is dealing with.
—
Roxane Gay
,
via twitter.com
Loss
Grief
Mourning
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Awareness
How You Treat People
Professional Success
The Pain Unsaid
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Mourn the dead, yes, but think about how you treat the living.
—
Roxane Gay
,
via twitter.com
Loss
Grief
Mourning
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Awareness
How You Treat People
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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
—
Baron de Montesquieu
,
Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)
Mourning
Birth
Death
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd,
Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd.
Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,
Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies:
O write it not, my hand—the name appears
Already written—wash it out, my tears!
In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays,
Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
—
Alexander Pope
,
Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope
Grief
Mourning
Love
Fatal
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Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to love. Then they leave and we mourn them too. Is that what we’re here for? To sit at kitchen tables, counting on our fingers the ones who died, those who left and the others who were taken by the police, or by drugs, or by illness or by other women. It makes no sense. Look at your skin, her mouth, these lips, those eyes, my God, listen to that laugh. The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, and even then, we have the moon.
—
Warsan Shire
,
What We Have
Women of Color Poets
poetic prose
Mourning
Grieving
Injustice
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Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is.
—
Yoda
(Frank Oz)
,
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Theatrical Version)
Death
Life
Rejoicing
The Force
Mourning
Attachment
Jealousy
Greed
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How would you like me to act? You want me to cry my eyes out? Bang my fists on the wall? She's gone. That's it. People leave. People die. It's the only sure thing there is in this world.
—
Mike Montgomery
(Cody Christian)
,
Pretty Little Liars
,
Season 5
:
How the 'A' Stole Christmas
Death & Life
Grieving
How to Grieve
The Only Thing That's Certain
Mourning
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After someone dies, I think we want to tell ourselves a story of how it was our fault, because at least it gives us some control.
—
Sarah Treem
and
Sharr White
,
The Affair
,
Season 3
:
Episode 10
Death
Mourning
Responsibility
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
—
Abraham Lincoln
,
via www.abrahamlincolnonline.org
prayer
Loss
Mourning
Bereavement
Freedom
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
—
Joseph Stalin
,
via en.wikiquote.org
Sadness
Mourning
humanity
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How do you greet people at a funeral in Ireland? Top o' the mourning!"
—
MechanicalKevlar
,
How do you greet people at a funeral in Ireland?
greet
People
funeral
ireland
Mourning
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I know
intense love always leads to mourning.
—
Louise Glück
,
Triumph of Achilles
Intense Love
Mourning
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Brad, Joe, Rob, Dave, and I love you all very much. Thank you so much for respecting our privacy during this extremely difficult time.
—
Mike Shinoda
,
via twitter.com
Death
Mourning
Privacy
Respect
Love
Friendship
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All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be.
It was the nature of things.
Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true.
At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.
We must try to see one another this way.
As suffering, limited beings --
Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.
His sympathy extended to all in this instant, blundering, in its strict logic, across all divides.
He was leaving here broken, awed, humbled, diminished.
Ready to believe anything of this world.
Made less rigidly himself through his loss.
Therefore quite powerful.
Reduced, ruined, remade.
Merciful, patient, dazzled.
—
George Saunders
,
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
Grief
Mourning
Death
Lincoln In The Bardo
Stoicism
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His mind was freshly inclined towards
sorrow;
toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that is his current state of sorry was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, and would yet be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone.
—
George Saunders
,
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
Grief
Mourning
Death
Lincoln In The Bardo
Stoicism
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All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.
Only there is nothing left to do.
—
George Saunders
,
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
Grief
Mourning
Death
Lincoln In The Bardo
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You mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.
—
Rachel Hawthorne
,
A Year In Europe: Three Novels
Cheating
Mourning
Healing
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Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.
—
C.J. Redwine
,
Deception (Defiance Trilogy)
Crying
Death
Mourning
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Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile. Don't try to find a sunbeam where a shroud of darkness encloses me. Let me mourn. Then, after the storm, when the tears have run dry and my eyes choose to open, I will look for your rainbow of hope.
—
Richelle E. Goodrich
,
Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
Crying
Mourning
Hope
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I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.
—
E.L. James
,
Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed)
Almost Relationships
Mourning
Loss
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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
—
Joan Didion
,
The Year of Magical Thinking
Life
Death
Grief
Mourning
Pain
Moving On
Letting Go
Holding On
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You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
—
Joan Didion
,
Blue Nights
Memories
Pain
Moving Forward
Moving On
Grief
Mourning
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I don't know how to do this?...Live my life.
—
Emily Gilmore
(Kelly Bishop)
,
Gilmore Girls : A Year in the Life
,
Season 1
:
Summer
Life
Mourning
Death
Relationships
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I don't know what to do or where to go. I forgot which side of the bed to sleep on. I was married for 50 years, half of me is gone.
—
Emily Gilmore
(Kelly Bishop)
Mourning
Death
Relationships
Marriage
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Your father was a great man, a pillar of the community, a man amongst men. And you dishonored him today like this in his own house.
—
Emily Gilmore
(Kelly Bishop)
Mourning
Death
Relationships
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You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.
—
Brianna Wiest
,
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Pain
Loss
The future
Mourning
Moving On
Re-framing The Future
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People leave, people die, that's the only sure thing in the world
—
Mike
,
Pretty Little Liars
Mourning
Loss
Sadness
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It’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.
—
Paula Hawkins
,
The Girl On The Train
Missing
Mourning
possibilities
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That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
—
Sarah Dessen
,
The Truth About Forever
Loss
Death
Mourning
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You kill your future by mourning the past.
—
R.H. Sin
,
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Future
Past
Mourning
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We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.
—
Robyn Schneider
,
Extraordinary Means
Future
Mourning
Misery
present
Unhappy
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Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up. That wasn’t in the Bible, but maybe it should’ve been.
—
Joe Hill
,
Horns: A Novel
Bible
Mourning
Blessed
God
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
—
Elie Wiesel
,
Night (Night)
Death Quotes
Mourning
dead
Killing
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Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
—
Gayle Forman
,
Just One Day
Leaving
Loss
Relationships Ending
Gone
Mourning
Death Quotes
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You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.
—
Stephen King
,
Lisey's Story: A Novel
Life Quotes
Death Quotes
Mourning
Regret
goodbye
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There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
—
Stephen King
,
Lisey's Story
Death Quotes
Mourning
Death
Relationships
After Life
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Lexie: [voiceover] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.
Mark: It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life. It’s loss. It’s change.
Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.
—
Krista Vernoff
,
Grey's Anatomy
,
Season 4
:
Loss
Grief
Death
Mourning
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You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around -- beds, pillows, arms, laps.
—
Patti Davis
,
Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats
Grief
Mourning
Death
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.
—
Hilary Thayer Hamann
,
Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
Grief
Mourning
Death
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Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls.
—
Jonathan Safran Foer
,
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Death
Mourning
Time
Healing
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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.
—
Jodi Picoult
,
My Sister's Keeper
Grief
Mourning
Time
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The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.
—
Richelle E. Goodrich
,
Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
Loss
Mourning
unique
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When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
—
John Irving
,
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
Missing
Death
Mourning
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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
—
Stephen King
,
More Good Words
Family
Mourning
Death
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Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.
—
Neil Gaiman
,
Anansi Boys
Family
Friends
Mourning
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If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning.
They're right. It does.
However much you beg it to stop.
—
Alan Moore
,
Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 1
funeral
Death
Mourning
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I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart.
—
Erin Morgenstern
,
The Night Circus
Mourning
Siblings
Loss
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Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.
—
Carrie Jones
,
Captivate (Need)
Loss
Mourning
Death
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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just... something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
—
Sarah Dessen
,
The Truth About Forever
Death
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Crying
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I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care... didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter.
—
Robert Kirkman
,
The Walking Dead Collection: Rise of the Governor, The Road to Woodbury, The fall of the Governor, Part I, The Fall of the Governor, Part II, Just Another Day at the Office (The Walking Dead Series)
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Do not weep
but once, and a long
time then
Thereafter eat till
your stomach spills over
No more! you’ll cry
too full for your eyes
to leak
*
The words will wait
—
Kevin Young
,
Dear Darkness: Poems
Kevin Young
Mourning
Death
Grieving
Loss
Language
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You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.
—
Neil Gaiman
,
The Sandman
Death
Grieving
Mourning
enjoy life
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This is how you fight back:
Take the salt from your tears
and amass a raging ocean from it.
Spindle your cries into its own axis
and unleash a sweeping hurricane.
Mourn, and mourn, and mourn,
for where we stand, gravity persists.
And those with the heaviest hearts
plant their feet into the earth the strongest.
You are a force of nature,
the salt of this earth,
and this earth bends for nobody.
So when they tell you to move,
what do you say?
—
Nikka Ursula
,
YOU MOVE
Moving On
Mourning
Break Up
Empowering
strength
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From where, from whom, this mourning, or these tears of joy — I do not know; one must believe.
—
Jacques Derrida
,
Memoirs of the Blind
Alien
Mourning
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