{"quotes":[{"text":"...We are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["grief","grief-and-loss"],"id":2291,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"To everyone in the foyer reading the lists, or on the sidewalks waving signs and photos of their families who’d disappeared, I said over and over again: “Everyone is dead.” If they insisted, showing me family photos, I’d calmly say: “Were there any children? Not a single child will come back.” I didn’t mince my words, I didn’t try to spare their feelings, I was used to death. I’d become as hard-hearted as the deportees who saw us arrive at Birkenau without saying a single comforting word. Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.","author":"Marceline Loridan-Ivens","tags":["grief","grief-and-loss","survival","war"],"id":4848,"author_id":"Marceline+Loridan-Ivens"},{"text":"People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible ... But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together with grubby bandages and yellowing sticky tape. Creaking along the fault lines, Fragile and exhausting to hold together. Sometimes you wish it had killed you.","author":"Fiona Barton","tags":["child","grief-and-loss","heartbreak"],"id":5555,"author_id":"Fiona+Barton"},{"text":"Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.","author":"Dee Williams","tags":["breathing","grief","grief-and-loss","grieving"],"id":7118,"author_id":"Dee+Williams"},{"text":"An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.","author":"Asa Don Brown","tags":["an-anchor","counseling","grief-and-loss","loss","psychology"],"id":8164,"author_id":"Asa+Don+Brown"},{"text":"And sometimeswhen she does remember,she calls me her little angeland she knows where she isand everything is all rightfor a second or a minuteand then we cry;she for the life that she lostI for the woman I only know about through the stories of her children.","author":"Rebecca Rijsdijk","tags":["alzheimers","carer","dementia","grief-and-loss","loss"],"id":10595,"author_id":"Rebecca+Rijsdijk"},{"text":"Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["anguish","caring","compassion","death","grief","grief-and-loss","love","loving","meaning-of-life","mourning","quotable","sacrifice","vulnerability"],"id":10944,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"When shall I cease to regret you! – When learn to feel a home elsewhere! – Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! – And you, ye well-known trees! – but you will continue the same. – No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! – No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! – But who will remain to enjoy you?","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["grief-and-loss","nostalgia"],"id":18519,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","memories","memories","memory","memory","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","reminders","reminisce","reminiscence","reminiscing","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","the-past","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":19213,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"},{"text":"He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have….","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","memories","memories","memory","memory","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","reminders","reminisce","reminiscence","reminiscing","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","the-past","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":20404,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":230,"pages":23,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}