“Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”… — Scott Leopold Copy Share Image
“grief was a personal thing; something you had to come to terms with and find a way to get through somehow.” — Connie Suttle Copy Share Image
“I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that grief is like any wound, it needs time to heal. Thing is, it's not a scab on… — Bella Osborne Copy Share Image
Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul,… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
He who is overly attached to his loved ones experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus… — KM II Copy Share Image
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What I’m trying to get across is, we all suffer feelings of loss and despair when grieving for a friend or relative… — D. L. Kline Copy Share Image
“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Everything that is ended, everything that is last, naturally awakens in man a feeling of sorrow and melancholy. At the same time,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love,… — Jamie Sams Copy Share Image
The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Katrina hated to see the widows in black. They struck her as relics of their own making, frozen in permanent deference to… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow. — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The coronavirus is serving up a rare and tragic mix of grief, drastic life changes, and economic stress to a huge swath… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer. — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
“Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it’s incurable. I’ve just learned to live with it.” — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“All the sorrows of life are bearable if only we can convert them into a story.” — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“But the cost of steeling yourself against grief was that you had to steel yourself against joy, as well.” — Sophie Littlefield Copy Share Image
“I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.” — Karen Cecil Smith Copy Share Image
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of itno shortcuts and no anesthesia. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have to start telling the truth about this kind of pain-grief , loss, love .” — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
