I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
I recall with sorrow the demise of 233 party cadres who lost their lives after the special court delivered its verdict on… — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
“My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.” — Irfan Orga Copy Share Image
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
It's been a long day without my friend and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. We've come… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you could feel my sorrow and my shame. Know how I hate the things I have done--my sins, my failures, my… — Willow Aster Copy Share Image
“Do not despise your inner world. That is the first and most general piece of advice I would offer… Our society is… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
“But he was not like Walter, who might take his pleasure where he chose it. His pleasure had turned, at the last,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“We are all of us exposed to grief: the people we love die, as we shall ourselves in due course; expectations are… — Charles Le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“It just gets harder,” I said, understanding completely and stepping closer to him. “And it gets old to everyone around you. People… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding. — John Adams Copy Share Image
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end? — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.” — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person. — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak ... Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.” — J.W. Lynne Copy Share Image
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.” — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
“Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.” — Amy Alznauer Copy Share Image