Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
– Elizabeth McCracken
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- Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
- It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. – Oscar Wilde
- Books remember all the things you cannot contain. – Elizabeth McCracken
- The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. – Elizabeth McCracken
- Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours. – Elizabeth McCracken
- Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours. – Elizabeth McCracken
- Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks. – Carla Bruni
- The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains…nothing lasts. – Sanober Khan
- Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. – Joan Didion
- Whatever you have not strived hard to achieve will not strive hard to fade. Success built on hard work is the kind that lasts longer. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots. – Ulysses Brave
- The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. – Oscar Wilde
- Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. – Oscar Wilde
- Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program. – Ronald Reagan
- Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- …the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. – Jos Saramago
- Love isn’t about what happens after, it’s about how great it is finding that love. The greater the find and chase, the longer the love lasts. – Samuel Skillman
- The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts. – Elizabeth II
- To ease a grieving heart is the world’s greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours. – Radhika Mundra
- The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person. – Asa Don Brown
- Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. – Sarah Dessen
- You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving. – Alexandra Fuller
- As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love. – Amy Eldon
- You can’t make anything if you’re lost to yourself. You’ll want to again, it’s who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time. – Amy McNamara
- There’s always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you’d never stop grieving. – Jonathan Tropper
- Grieving the loss of a loved one-”whether human or animal-”is not only permissible, it is essential. – Linda Bender
- it’s easy to be forgetful when you’re grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn’t. – Liz Fichera
- A grieving person’s like a person treading in deep water–if they’ve nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. – Susanna Kearsley
- For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back. – Holly Goldberg Sloan
- When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient. – Stieg Larsson
- The eyes of the lovers are blind while those of the grieving are wide open. – A Mani
- The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up. – Charles Stross
- You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning. – Catherynne M Valente
- It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors – Arthur W Pink
- By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. – Cormac McCarthy
- -‹It is not enough to write and deliver a funeral service for a grieving family-¦you must love them too. – Caroline Louise Whittle
- -‹It is not enough to write and deliver a funeral service for a grieving family-¦you must love them too. – Caroline Louise Whittle
- Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief. – Alison Bechdel
- Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit. – William Shakespeare
- He sought…to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars. – Victor Hugo