“They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.” — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; its the endings were unprepared for. — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Love me today, and more tomorrow, and I will take away your pain, and ease your sorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The ocean-blue bowl won’t refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back from the gaping earth-wounds. There will still come water, chill wind… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
When you are upset if you rest your head on the shoulder of your beloved ones and hold their hands, in a… — Bhar Gavi Copy Share Image
“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they… — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn’t get out of bed. Just… — Brenda Rothert Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“There are, apparently, persons who are deeply afraid of their own emotions, particularly the painful ones. Grief, regret, sadness. Sadness especially, perhaps.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Like Seita and Setsuko, like Chihiro - like Sophie Hatter who disappears from her dreary life into a world of talking fireballs… — Karl Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
I loved you!” he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. “I loved you,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I wanted to turn on the table saw and rip a plank, but I had to drive to the airport. I had… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Sarah, though, was still sometimes ruled by stark pain, lost to everything else. Grief slipped away, only to attack from behind. It… — Kate Maloy Copy Share Image
“Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the… — Maria von Trapp Copy Share Image
“She's there for me. And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart.” — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“At birth we become elements to entity, upon death the entity reverts to elements.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Misery and sorrow, I don't want to have anything to do with them. I always want to be happy and cheerful. — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
“Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on… — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure. — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
“There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief—… — Priscille Sibley Copy Share Image
Your tears are just TEMPORARY release of the pain, sorrow and grief; but don't you worry because God's gonna wipe EVERY tear… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“So strange that David Drucker of all people was the only one who said the exact right thing: Your dad shouldn't have… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image