“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.” — Philipa Gregory Copy Share Image
Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“Food, particularly chocolate, at a time of grief or crisis is never a mistake.” — Lucinda Fleeson Copy Share Image
“Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only way to it is through it and if you never go through the grief you’ll never arrive at the… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off… — MacDonald George Copy Share Image
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Grief is not an identity. What feels so solid and real as a grief reaction (or any other reaction) in any moment… — Sameet M. Kumar Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is both a vaccine and an antidote for grief. Grief may be an inevitable fact of life, but gratitude has the… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Now I know grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
“Burial of the dead was usually on platforms lashed to the limbs of trees beyond the reach of wolves. Securely wrapped in… — Frank Bird Linderman Copy Share Image
The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief,… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved… — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I was, after the breakup, what you call a complete wreck. For the first time in my life, my pain had a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are ... bland, tasteless. They'll never understand what it's… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Sing, for it may be that your thoughts have plucked Some medicable herb to make our grief Less bitter.” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Underneath my grief that day a resolution was hardening into cement: I would never, ever again create something thinking that I would… — Marcia Tucker Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.” — Kristen Hope Mazzola Copy Share Image
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God… — Joseph M. Scriven Copy Share Image
“Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. -Maester Pycelle — Game Of Thrones Copy Share Image
“Grief wasn't simply a shadow that followed people around; it was the worst sort of companion.” — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
“In Kashmir when we wake up and say “Good Morning” what we really mean is “Good Mourning.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Here is how my tale ends. It is a bitter ending, but I do not complain. Sorrow finds us all, and the… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief Is only a… — Hilary Stanton Zunin Copy Share Image