“Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.” — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
Every mourning when you wake up, U should give god thanks because he did'nt had to wake U up. — Damian Copy Share Image
“The main problem with medicating your grief with drugs is that it doesn’t help.” — Liam Pieper Copy Share Image
Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a… — Ibi Kaslik Copy Share Image
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
“I do not mean the difficulty. I do not mean the sex. I mean there are too many failings. Not enough hope.… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a… — Dally Messenger Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. This seems so clearly the case with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The shadows of estrangement, anger and unforgiveness wear black hoodies for disguise and inhabit the darkest corners of your life, and the… — Roger Macdonald Andrew Copy Share Image
“But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“grief. We do and say strange things—sometimes bizarre things—when we are swallowed up in grief. No one should be hard on us… — R. T. Kendall Copy Share Image
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The key to happiness wasn’t to pretend bruised souls and broken hearts didn’t exist because you couldn’t build something solid on a… — Aimee Nicole Walker Copy Share Image
When sorrow comes, then we do not welcome him | but it will definitely leave happily — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided. — John Heywood Copy Share Image
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief.… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grieving for someone or something is not a mental health issue it is sorrow and grief.Grief can become depression but often it… — Liz Crowe Copy Share Image
“I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“dealing with grief was like building physical stamina: the more you exercise, the faster your heart rate recovers after it is elevated.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.” — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
