The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nikolai Gogol

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If you've never eaten while crying you don't know what life tastes like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PTSD nightmares aren't always exact replays of the event. Sometimes they replay the emotions you felt during the event, such as fear, helplessness, and sadness.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Not a day goes by that I don't look at your picture and smile. Or cry. Or both.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

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