“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”
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Others on Grief
Dante
7 quotes“There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.”
Jojo Moyes
3 quotes“It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief”
Seneca
2 quotes“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”
Molière
2 quotes“If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.”
C.S. Lewis
2 quotes“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Cormac McCarthy
1 quote“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
Stephenie Meyer
1 quote“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an e...”
Marcel Proust
1 quote“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.”
Veronica Roth
1 quote“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”
Emily Dickinson
1 quote“A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.”
Maya Angelou
1 quote“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”
W.B. Yeats
1 quote“Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than...”