Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Joan Didion

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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

Nicholas Sparks

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken".

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

Federico García Lorca

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

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