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967ff89 The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around. inspirational mourn pray remember John Green
6e37382 Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there -- the walls and the chairs and the children's pictures on the walls -- meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable. lost mourn J.K. Rowling
a8278c6 I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. death depression empty forget grief hollow ignore life loss mourn mourning numb pass-by sorrow tears Robin Hobb
e5dd3f7 There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin. beginning coincide depression empty end ending initiate lead loss mark mourn mourning numb passage show sign sorrow space start time Robin Hobb
b8453f8 She wasn't crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he'd seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn't that big a girl to hold all of it--to hold her brother's life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that. loss morning mourn withdrawal Francesca Lia Block
b54f8fd If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard. bad bad-habit befall befell complain depression dragon fear future happen hoard loss mourn much occur occurence past predict sadness sorrow tendency wallow woe woes Robin Hobb
6759640 I've been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you'll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down. baggage fall grief life mental-illness mourn mourning unstable Rebecca McNutt
b265f1f Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there. died dying family grief mourn Lois Lowry
352fd44 There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced. bitter choice cry death decision humility life live mourn Mitch Albom
89ca8f1 "I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself. "Sometimes, in the mornings," he said. "That's when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands - whatever I can still move - and I mourn what I've lost. I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I'm dying. But then I stop mourning." ill insidious lost mourn self slow sorry Mitch Albom