James Martineau Quotes

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

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?

Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

Why is the measure of love loss?

I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!

...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.