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“I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.”
― Lament for a Son
― Lament for a Son
“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more importantly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“It has been said that bereavement is a state of loss and grief is a response to loss. To grieve is a natural and healthy response to our losses. It is nature’s way of letting us heal and open ourselves up to a new chapter in our lives.”
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
“but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.”
― What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.”
― What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why
“Every ray of sunshine, every drop of rain, every tear that falls, you are with me for I carry you in my heart forever.”
― Kipnuk Has a Birthday
― Kipnuk Has a Birthday
“I flung the duvet off and flailed and swung and spat at you but you were elsewhere and I had to fall asleep crushed between what you'd said and what I thought.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“I think it is in grief that we need some reminder of our humanity--and sometimes, someone to say it for us. Poetry steps in at those moments when ordinary words fail: poetry as ceremony, as closure to what cannot be closed.”
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
“Trying to remember you
is like carrying water
in my hands a long distance
across sand. Somewhere people are waiting.
They have drunk nothing for days.”
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is like carrying water
in my hands a long distance
across sand. Somewhere people are waiting.
They have drunk nothing for days.”
―
“--One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,
the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.”
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the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.”
―
“I'm still broken, aren't I? I guess I'm beginning to realise that I won't get over it. Death doesn't get better. Maybe life does.”
― Cold Earth
― Cold Earth
“The supple water is forever changing. It's almost like it never happened, which gives me hope that one day it will be like it never happened.”
― The Water Cure
― The Water Cure
“I sometimes feel as though we are all daughters of the same mythical mother. Some of us are super direct, funny. Others are pensive, inquisitive, maudlin, bitter, sarcastic, or a combination of all those things. Yet we have all been orphaned, except by our words, which we eventually turn to in order to make sense of the impossible, the unknowable.”
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“Perhaps Hurston saw in her mother, Lucy, a version of Persephone, who is so missed when she's gone that the world literally starts to die. This type of grief, as Toni Morrison writes in Sula, has no top and no bottom, "just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“To lose someone close to you is to enter an experience no amount of forethought or hindsight can free you from. You must live through grief. You cannot outsmart it, nor think through the fact of someone's being gone, and forever. You must survive the sorrow.”
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
“Death brings with it a duty and devotion that cannot be explained to those who don't know it.”
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
“What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things.”
― The Line That Held Us
― The Line That Held Us
“What seemed to have been taken from our lives is simply a precursor to the very thing that’s about to show up.”
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“Your life can change in the blink of an eye, on a calm and beautiful Midsummer night. You lose what you love while you think it is still safe beside you.”
― The Crossing of Ingo
― The Crossing of Ingo
“Frozen grief occurs when we deliberately numb out and refuse to process our major losses. Frozen grief is essentially suppressed emotional pain (loss and abandonment) stored in the human body. Frozen grief torments drug addicts. Deep below the emotional surface of the drug addict who has yet to find recovery lies untold, suppressed pain and loss.”
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
“Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.”
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“Life and Death. Love and Loss. Light and Dark. This is the divide her life had taken, and one that she was completely and utterly lost in. Suffocated in.”
― Queen to Ashes
― Queen to Ashes
“So fucking fleeting yet you looked like the rest of my life.
I was always creating rainbows and you we're colourblind.”
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I was always creating rainbows and you we're colourblind.”
―
“Often, in death, everything else fails. We are left only with the music and the meaning of poetry.”
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
― The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
“But someone I know is dying--
And though one might say glibly, "everyone is,"
The different pace makes the difference absolute.”
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And though one might say glibly, "everyone is,"
The different pace makes the difference absolute.”
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“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really—which meant I guess that he was still living, too.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Grief is a nation of everyone,
a country without borders.
I roam the avenues of it
out of habit.”
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a country without borders.
I roam the avenues of it
out of habit.”
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“Each death frames previous deaths in a different light, and even deaths to come. During the time my mother was sick, I found myself crying uncontrollably over the deaths of people I barely knew.”
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
― The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“Sometimes a voice is there to give you warning, at other times it’s just a voice in the head, alerting you that the landslide’s under way and that your life is changing forever in that instant; the moment you touch a loved one’s face and realize they’re too deeply still for sleep, they’re gone.”
― Richard's Feet
― Richard's Feet
“While waiting for her to phone me at school I'd feel seconds bursting inside me and leaving clouds. That won't come again—it can't. I'll never have that with anyone else. I'll never even come close.”
― Mr. Fox
― Mr. Fox
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