Debalina

“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or a open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you'd otherwise find beautiful - a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, "I am going to tell you something that you will never forget." And then he said, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“Sometimes in tragedy we find out life's purpose.....
The eye sheds a tear to find its focus”
― Robert Brault

“We were having an absurd and inappropriate argument because in the wake of death every single thing on earth feels absurd and inappropriate.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming