When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts... You can't let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“I miss myself." "I miss you too, Ali, so much." "I never planned to get like this." "I know.” — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
I lost myself in sorrow, I lost myself in pain, I lost myself in gravity, memory leave. — REM Copy Share Image
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of… — Overstreet Copy Share Image
“I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children; I got a bag of lettuce. I hurled myself on the floor… — Debby Bull Copy Share Image
There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Friendship can hurt! And women aren't wired to forget hurt easily, so the loss of a friend can set off a grieving… — Judy Dippel Copy Share Image
If you don't feel like helping someone whose really in need,if you've no feelings for the sorrow of others, if you think… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“I root through your remains, looking for the black box. Nothing left but glossy chunks, a pimp’s platinum tooth clanking inside the… — Erin Belieu Copy Share Image
“ Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years,… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
“Oh, the pathos of it! - haggard, drawn into fixed lines of unutterable sadness, with a look of loneliness, as of a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die. (Thomas Campbell) A thousand words won't bring you back,… — Dannygbemius Copy Share Image
“My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried "Crucify him!… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you must steal, steal my sorrows. If you must lie, lie with me. & if you must cheat, cheat death, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together! — Thomas Parsons Copy Share Image
“but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Your eyes are like the ocean: filled with worries and untold stories and behind your smile is pain. If you let me… — Reina Copy Share Image
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing… — Melissa C. Walker Copy Share Image
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.” — Donovan Copy Share Image
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Your lost Joseph will return to Canaan, do not grieve. This house of sorrows will become a garden, do not grieve.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
“Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)” — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
