If I didn't drain the sorrow, you would have made me suffer a life of no love anyway. — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
“My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay… — Cixin Liu Copy Share Image
“I was in way too deep. I was cut in so many places that I felt like I was bleeding out from… — Alisa Mullen Copy Share Image
“Grief:” You don’t get over it you just get through it you don’t get by it because you can’t get around it… — Brook Noel Copy Share Image
“Love for the beauty of the soul. I shall love you always. When the flower of life has gone, ever I shall… — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“A grieving process alongside career change is perfectly normal. The key is to accepting resistance and anticipating it instead of trying to… — Adele Barlow Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
The day you went away, my world slipped away, as if I were to roam the sky with a thousand butterflies, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing… — Helen MacDonald Copy Share Image
“grief is as much about regret for what you’ve never had as sadness for what you’ve lost. Anyway, we got through it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage. — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
“I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.” — Seré Prince Halverson Copy Share Image
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Sod off! Psych 101. There are five stages of grief and I’m owning that shit. They ARE my bitches.” — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
“Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When I became an imprint of my surroundings, I began to disappear into the tragedy of acceptance.” — Damond Jiniya Copy Share Image
“If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen’s mirror would definitely say it was… — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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