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Keep busy with your work and your life. You can’t become a professional mourner. It doesn’t help you or others. Replay the good times. Be grateful for the years you had.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Betty White", "slug": "betty-white", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/betty-white" }, "book": { "title": "If You Ask Me", "slug": "if-you-ask-me", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/betty-white/if-you-ask-me" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "gratitude", "slug": "gratitude", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Betty_White#If_You_Ask_Me_(And_of_Course_You_Won%E2%80%99t)_(2011)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:18" }, { "id": "c0bf389a-eb27-4944-9b39-618b694d3794", "slug": "how-can-i-live", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/czeslaw-milosz/rescue/how-can-i-live", "text": "How can I live in this country Where the foot knocks against The unburied bones of kin? I hear voices, see smiles. I cannot Write anything; five hands Seize my pen and order me to write The story of their lives and deaths. Was I born to become a ritual mourner? I want to sing of festivities, The greenwood into which Shakespeare Often took me. 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People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then. 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My son had his Batman costume, I still used my husband’s surname, and Little Bee, though she was relatively safe with us, still clung to the name she had taken in a time of terror. We were exiles from reality that summer. 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Deliver him to the police? Get him a lawyer? Will that mean I do not feel your sorrow for your slain daughter? Am I your enemy? Are you mine? What wrong have I done you . . . or you me?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sindiwe Magona", "slug": "sindiwe-magona", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona" }, "book": { "title": "Mother to Mother", "slug": "mother-to-mother", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 138, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" }, { "name": "mother", "slug": "mother", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mother" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sindiwe_Magona#Mother_to_Mother_(1998)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:19" }, { "id": "93c7b52f-09d4-4914-b860-4ffe436db116", "slug": "but-you-couldnt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians-land/but-you-couldnt", "text": "But you couldn’t mourn forever. 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Today Diana said something funny and I found myself laughing. I thought when it happened I could never laugh again. 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There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; even in dreams, I never saw again his face, and though I longed for it, I came at last to see that it was just as well, lest I live all the rest of my life in dreams…but at last there came a day when I could look back and know that the time for mourning was ended. 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But we learn to live with that love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "slug": "jonathan-safran-foer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer" }, "book": { "title": "Everything is Illuminated", "slug": "everything-is-illuminated", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-is-illuminated" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Safran_Foer#Everything_Is_Illuminated_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:10" }, { "id": "c06dcd50-1edc-4a41-a8d0-c6d9c67056c7", "slug": "do-not-think", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula/do-not-think", "text": "Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh. 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And yet when he say things that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my father-heart yearn to him as to no other man — not even you, friend John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son — yet even at such a moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, ‘Here I am! here I am!’ till the blood come dance back and bring some of the sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek. Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. 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Those whose grievability is not assumed are those who suffer inequality—unequal value.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Judith Butler", "slug": "judith-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind", "slug": "the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 108, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "equality", "slug": "equality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#Chapter_Three", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:35" }, { "id": "ba22e3a1-faa0-4935-8ea0-b13d9e17c14b", "slug": "one-might-expect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind/one-might-expect", "text": "One might expect that a consideration of grievability pertains only to those who are dead, but my contention is that grievability is already operative in life, and that it is a characteristic attributed to living creatures, marking their value within a differential scheme of values and bearing directly on the question of whether or not they are treated equally and in a just way. To be grievable is to be interpellated in such a way that you know your life matters; that the loss of your life would matter; that your body is treated as one that should be able to live and thrive, whose precarity should be minimized, for which provisions for flourishing should be available. The presumption of equal grievability would be not only a conviction or attitude with which another person greets you, but a principle that organizes the social organization of health, food, shelter, employment, sexual life, and civic life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Judith Butler", "slug": "judith-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind", "slug": "the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 59, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "equality", "slug": "equality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#Chapter_One", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:35" }, { "id": "54f3a533-7075-4a36-8326-020c50365549", "slug": "to-say-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind/to-say-that", "text": "To say that a life is grievable is to claim that a life, even before it is lost, is, or will be, worthy of being grieved on the occasion of its loss; the life has value in relation to mortality. One treats a person differently if one brings the sense of the grievability of the other to one’s ethical bearing toward the other. If an other’s loss would register as a loss, would be marked and mourned, and if the prospect of loss is feared, and precautions are thus taken to safeguard that life from harm or destruction, then our very ability to value and safeguard a life depends upon an ongoing sense of its grievability—the conjectured future of a life as an indefinite potential that would be mourned were it cut short or lost.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Judith Butler", "slug": "judith-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind", "slug": "the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 75, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#Chapter_Two", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:35" }, { "id": "06592540-e345-4105-a136-4ff33c2a2555", "slug": "you-spend-your", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman/you-spend-your", "text": "You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Alvin Journeyman", "slug": "alvin-journeyman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" }, { "name": "fear of death", "slug": "fear-of-death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear-of-death" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Alvin_Journeyman_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:13" }, { "id": "603473b5-3aaf-4b05-85aa-fe52e1e4dff3", "slug": "we-must-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/we-must-not", "text": "“’We must not grieve for those dear to us before their passing.’ ‘Before their passing. Tell me, little sister, what is before?’”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune Messiah", "slug": "dune-messiah", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune_Messiah_(1969)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:51" }, { "id": "72ebb411-e63e-4a9c-90fd-3ba4098a486a", "slug": "its-the-great", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/its-the-great", "text": "It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "slug": "the-brothers-karamazov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1879%E2%80%931880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:24" }, { "id": "ef63529e-3112-48ed-bdf1-35c5642ff140", "slug": "shadow-could-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/shadow-could-have", "text": "Shadow could have been in his bed at home, he thought, in the apartment that he had shared with Laura—in the bed that he had shared with Laura. But the thought of being there without her, surrounded by her things, her scent, her life, was simply too painful. . . Don ’t go there, thought Shadow. He decided to think about something else.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "American Gods", "slug": "american-gods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "longing", "slug": "longing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/American_Gods#Chapter_3", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:09" }, { "id": "f15568ec-d27f-469e-9eaf-871b8ac4eb50", "slug": "i-can-remember", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/i-can-remember", "text": "I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Faulkner", "slug": "william-faulkner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner" }, "book": { "title": "As I Lay Dying", "slug": "as-i-lay-dying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Faulkner#As_I_Lay_Dying_(1930)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:44" } ] }