Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it… — Muhammad al-Baqir Copy Share Image
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff. — William Topaz McGonagall Copy Share Image
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow. — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“My grandmother whispering to herself, over and over, "David is in heaven now, David is in heaven now,' my mind repeating Schrodinger's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“A weight settles on my shoulders. I knew, of course, that Uriah might never wake up. But the hope that kept the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts,… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A memory that costs you something," he said aloud, almost to himself. "One that hurts to remember. That makes you regret what… — Daria Lavelle Copy Share Image
“The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she wondered if it wouldn't have been better to let herself experience it [the grief] in the beginning - like a… — Katie Ganshert Copy Share Image
“When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had… — David Toop Copy Share Image
“People come and go from our lives all the time. It's not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making… — Sue Fitzmaurice Copy Share Image
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“... Now I'll close my eyes with all my strength and fly away singing my baby girl's favorite song.” — John Zea Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...” — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
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