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How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and ...

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All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to...

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Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted...

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Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing...

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Perhaps ... To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies ...

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Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows...

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Yann MartelThe High Mountains of Portugal

Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord's mother is weeping, She ha...

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Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel li...

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Heartbreak is an altogether different thing. Disappointment doesn't grow into heartbreak, nor does f...

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In March of 1915, all three of Lord and Lady Chetwynd-Pitt's sons'd been gassed, blown up or machine...

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Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kep...

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Dean KoontzThe Darkest Evening of the Year

For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I...

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Don't you understand how Cho's feeling at the moment?" [Hermione] asked."No," said Ron and Harry tog...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

When shall I cease to regret you! – When learn to feel a home elsewhere! – Oh! Happy house, could yo...

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Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull t...

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It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, espe...

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Judith ButlerPrecarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.