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Quotes About Grief

She's as dead as she'll every be, ain't she? Well, ain't she?
~ Olive Ann Burns
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
~ Oliver North
HE ALWAYS KNEW THE LAYERED GRIEF OF THE WORDL AS ITS PLEASURES.
~ Ondaatje Michael.
To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.
~ Orhan Pamuk
la muerte no es el final de todo, eso seguro. Pero, tal y como está escrito en todos los libros, es algo que produce un dolor increíble.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Kederden ölüyormuÅŸ gibi yaparak yürüdüm karanl??a kederden ölerek.
~ Orhan Pamuk
At times like this what matters is not our words but our demeanor, not the magnitude or elegance of our grief but the degree to which we can express fellowship with those around us. I sometimes think that our love of cigarettes owes nothing to the nicotine, and everything to their ability to fill the meaningless void and offer an easy way of feeling as if we are doing something purposeful.
~ Orhan Pamuk
T?pk? sevdiÄŸi k?z?n ölümünden sonra hayat?n baÅŸkalar? için bütün s?radanl??? ile sürüp gitmesini bir türlü kald?ramayan kiÅŸi gibi bir öfke duydu bu insanlara.
~ Orhan Pamuk
They've been taping your phone conversations for four years." He lay down again, weeping silently. "I want to die," he said.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ölümün kaç?n?lmaz olduÄŸunu anlay?nca aÄŸlamaya baÅŸlad?m.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
~ Orson Scott Card
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.
~ Orson Scott Card
O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!
~ Orson Scott Card
He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
~ Orson Scott Card
The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)
~ Orson Scott Card
The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
~ Orson Scott Card
You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.
~ Orson Scott Card
Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
~ Orson Scott Card
They loved Ender too, and knew him too; but in their grief, they leaned upon each other, a family that had strength to share because Ender had been part of them and healed them, or at least opened up the door of healing.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's better to lose someone you love...than to have no one to lose.
~ Orson Scott Card
You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.
~ Orson Scott Card
Still, she said nothing, because his words came from God, and hers from grief. To him, it was as if what the Lord had promised were already fulfilled; he thought of himself as a man with many children, and it didn't occur to him that she did not live in that world.
~ Orson Scott Card
Thus a man hates the house they lived in together, because either he does not change it, so that it is as dead as his wife, or because he does change it, so that it is no longer half of their making.
~ Orson Scott Card
And so she wrote, and wept; and when the weeping was done, the writing went on. When the hair that he had left behind was sealed in a small box and buried in the grass near Human's root, she would stand and speak. Her voice would raise him from the dead, make him live again in memory. And she would also be merciful; and she would also be just. That much, at least, she had learned from him.
~ Orson Scott Card