“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”– James Thurber Related Quotes “No one can share in your sorrow.”— Lailah Gifty Akita “Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he’s muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.”— Melina Marchetta “I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn’t feel ashamed.”— S.J. Watson