“It was his own grief turned magically to song.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 114 of 132
“On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.”
“And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.”
“Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.”
“Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.”
“Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.”
“How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.”
“I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is with what was going on in my life at the time. I was mourning the loss of this world that I had written for so long and loved so much. I was also mourning the retreat it had been from - from ordinary life, which it has been. And it forced me to look back at 17 years of my life and remember things.”
“It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.”
“I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”
“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”
“Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.”
“For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!”
“What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.”
“Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.”
“You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through.”
“I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.”
“The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.”
“I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.”