“A person doesn't mourn forever.”

— Junot Díaz, book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

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Dominican-American writer 1968

Olive Ann Burns book Cold Sassy Tree

Source: Cold Sassy Tree

“I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.”

Jonathan Katz (1946) Comedian, actor

Interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.”

Meghan O'Rourke (1976) American writer

Source: The Long Goodbye

“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

“Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every moment of it”

Cub Swanson (1983) American mixed martial artist

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“You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.”

Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., Revised Edition (1969/1993), p. xiii
Context: !-- We also need to remember that the struggle is a never ending process. --> Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.

“Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”

Stephanie Laurens (1943) Australian writer

Source: A Rogue's Proposal

“A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Vampire Requiem, to Anita; p. 311
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

“A person doesn't mourn forever.”

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