Who will look out for me now? Who will remember me as I was?
--Joan Didion (1934- ), in her memoir Where I Was From (2003), on the death of her mother
What is this website for?
- When you are very sad, when someone you love very much has died, sometimes it helps to know that others have felt the same way before you.
Best loved
- Those who are near me do not know
- Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance
- I will see that instant until I die
- I wondered that other men should live when he was dead
- Nobody knows the trouble I see
- Soon enough he would come once more into the world of light
- After great pain a formal feeling comes
- Vanity falls off the radar
- Time is our friend as well as our enemy
- Surprised by joy
- Who will give me back those days?
- The war has driven a sword through my heart
- Thou hast here no abiding city
- I was so happy, happy at that point!
- Great shining of the inner worlds
- Where has he gone, my dearest son?
- I am in great sadness
- Turn your face to the sun
- Abide with me
- The first days of grief are not the worst
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- Tegnér: There is no heart to be found in my breast
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- Virginia Woolf: ...when the lights of health go down
- Kenneth Patchen: Hands that shall reach icily into their warm beds
- The Wife's Lament: Grief and longing
- Christopher Hitchens: Why not you?
- Pancol: Pain makes us grow
- Bible: As for man, his days are as grass
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