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#1

“Ambien might have mentally just tossed my salad. WITH CROUTONS.”
― Jen Lancaster

tags: chick-lit, humor, medication, mental-health-humor, psychiatric-drugs

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#2

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: bereavement, broken-hearted, heartbreak

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#3

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: bereavement, grief

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#4

“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.”
― Pablo Neruda

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#5

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

tags: bereavement, casket, death, funeral, heart, loss, love, mourning

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#6

“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

tags: bereavement, loss, mourning

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#7

“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass

tags: bereavement, death, grief

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#8

“There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story

tags: bereavement, grief, loss

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#9

“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, Bone Gods

tags: bereavement, grief, loss

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#10

“For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, Hit and Run

tags: bereavement, grief

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#11

“I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing Was the Same

tags: bereavement, grief, love

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#12

“It's being without him that I'll never get used to.”
― Christopher Buecheler

tags: bereavement, grief, loss, love

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#13

“I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and singing with rapture.
There is not a thing I do not love.
There is not a person I have not forgiven.
I feel a universe of love.
I feel a universe of light.
Tonight, I am with old friends
and we are returning home.
The moon is our witness.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: abandon, afterlife, bereavement, celebrate, celebration, dance, dancing, death, death-poems, deceased, departure, drunk, dying, end, eternal, eternal-rest, eulogy, fate, forgive, forgiven, friends, funeral, harmony, heaven, home, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, life, light, living, love, moon, night, paradise, passing, rapture, rebirth, reborn, return-home, reunion, sing, singing, stars, swallowed, truth, union, unity, universe, witness

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#14

“I know good things have happened, don't mistake an expression of pain for a lack of thankfulness.”
― Ashley Nikole

tags: ashley-nikole, bereavement, emotional-health, emotional-pain, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, healing-quotes, inspirational-quotes, pain-quotes, post-traumatic-stress

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#15

“I was walking along one day and smacked into this wall called hope deferred and depression and...grief.
And it wouldn't budge.
After some time, I realized this darkness I'd found myself in was called grief.
I'd been through so much trauma, everything about me- including my body, emotions and soul, was shutting down and going into preservation mode.
I entered a season where the battle caught up with me and I realized just how badly I'd been beaten and torn up, inside and out.”
― Ashley Nikole

tags: ashley-nikole, bereavement, grief-and-loss, grief-inspirational, healing-quotes, inspirational-quotes, loss-quotes, post-traumatic-stress, trauma

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#16

“The closest bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: bereavement, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, sorrow, sorrow-quotes

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#17

“Do not go to my grave.
Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
and on people’s lips.
Do not go to my old school.
Do not go to my old house —
I am not in any of those places.
Look for me in your hearts
and greet me there.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: bereave, bereavement, condolence, consolation, console, dead, death, departure, dying, ephemera, ephemeral, grave, greet, heart, house, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, lips, loss, mary-elizabeth-frye, meet, mouths, old, pages, places, school, temporary, visit

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#18

“Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.
You will have your ups and downs
and moments of terror
and brief moments of peace.
You can only go as fast
as the ride will take you.
Just remember:
It will end and you will be okay.”
― Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge

tags: bereavement, emotion, grief, loss, pet, rainbow-bridge, reincarnation, rollercoaster

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#19

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy

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#20

“It is not enough to write and deliver a funeral service for a grieving family…you must love them too.”
― Caroline Louise Whittle

tags: bereavement, death-and-dying, funeral, funeral-speech, love

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#21

“It is okay to release your feelings when you feel the waves coming. It's all part of the process of having to let go of your relationship with your loved one as you once knew it. And remember, letting go is not the same thing as forgetting!”
― Elizabeth Berrien, Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick's Path from Loss to Hope

tags: bereavement, grief, hope, inspirational, loss, love, support

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#22

“It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: bereavement, grief, grieving, grieving-the-loss-of-a-mother

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#23

“I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: bereavement, loss

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