I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit. — Li Qingzhao Copy Share Image
“Even with Las Vegas giddy around me I felt as alone as Robinson Crusoe.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“And like every ending, it was a strange mix of exuberance and sorrow.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.” — Suzanne Berne Copy Share Image
“Grief was messy. It didn’t have the elegance of longing, the poetry of heartbreak; its wholeness made it solid, its certainty made… — Lara Williams Copy Share Image
“Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the Earth Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief.” — William Shakespeare (Richard II Copy Share Image
“All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It hardly matters where you live if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault: Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, And finish… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits,… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“When someone dies they get very cold and very still. That probably sounds obvious, but when it’s your mother it doesn’t feel… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it. when grief weights you like your own flesh… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Apart from my father, this house if filled with women. Women stop their lives; they're programmed that way. A child comes into… — Robin Romm Copy Share Image
“In twenty years you could say and do a lot you wish you hadn't. In twenty years you could store up a… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse,… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
