#Grief

"Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss."

"I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing."

"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief."

"... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks."

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

"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."

"The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess."

"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope"

"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."

"Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born."

"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

"Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course."

"It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."

"The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?"

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