"As I write, I am struggling with..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks
As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.
More by Nicholas Sparks
“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.”
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
“I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”
More on Grief
“The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.”
“Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.Thy match was mortal to him, and pure griefShore his old thread in twain.”
“Ay me! sad hours seem long.”
More on Loss
“I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.”
“[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)”
“Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.”