Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“It felt possible--though I know this is absurd--that the use of my own body, the only thing I really owned, had somehow… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns,… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Because I was alone, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning…My emotions were similarly amplified: the highs were higher; the periods of… — Jon Krakaur Copy Share Image
“She shoved open her car door and moved to get out. Instead she dropped her head to the steering wheel. She tried… — Ann Wertz Garvin Copy Share Image
“All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“We can be so heavily invested in our tales of sorrow and woe that we have no clue how much repeating that… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“they may pontificate that the suicide attempt was merely a ploy to gain attention or to manipulate others. No matter what may… — Valerie Porr M.A Copy Share Image
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“I believe that sometimes, the moment you say goodbye could be as painful as a lifetime worth of pain that you can… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
“I wanted to speak with someone, but found no time; sought some fixed point, but found none. In the midst of the… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Before my dad died I saw the world as a place. By "place" I mean space. Fixed. Space did not move, but… — Amy Fusselman Copy Share Image
“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley. — Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Copy Share Image
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. — Menander Copy Share Image
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief. — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and… — Joy Page Copy Share Image
“Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?” — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
“I am a creature of grief and dust and utter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“when we share our sorrow, our sorrow is halved, and when we share our joy, our joy is doubled.” — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. — William Goffe Copy Share Image
Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
