words that tear my heart out
“Love of my life, gone forever. Love of my life, gone for good.” - The Front Bottoms, West Virginia
“Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all; to be left on earth when another is gone.” - Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“Life is only precious because it ends.” - Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
“[A]nd if the City falls but a single man escapes / he will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile / he will be the City.”- Zbigniew Herbert, Report From The Besieged City
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Someone will remember us / I say / even in another time.” - Sappho Lobel, p.147, transl. Anne Carson
“All you who sleep tonight / Far from the ones you love, / No hand to left or right, / And emptiness above - / Know that you aren’t alone / The whole world shares your tears, / Some for two nights or one, / And some for all their years.” - Vikram Seth, All You Who Sleep Tonight
“Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of Darkness.” -Vladimir Nabokov
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“I am absent because I am the teller. Only the tale is real.” - Edmond Jabès
“And now the boy is turning to me: “Tell me,” he asks. “What have you done with my future? What have you done with your life?“And I tell him that I have tried.” - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Should you ever feel too lonely…listen for the roar of the sea - for in it are all those who’ve been and all those who are to come.” - Simon Van Booy, The Coming and Going of Strangers
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, his cloak was worn out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.” - Victor Hugo
“For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus! If we do meet again, we’ll smile indeed; If not, ‘tis true this parting was well made.” - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V scene i
“Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” Euripides (tr. Anne Carson)
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