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“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.”
― Anna Quindlen

“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”
― Dostoevski

“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C. S. Lewis

“In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.”
― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

“‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

“There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“I know what the fear is.
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

“It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.”
― Fiona Apple

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. ”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea