In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono Copy Share Image
Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think. — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
“when people suffer terrible losses they need to have an opportunity to talk about them. Being isolated with your sorrow is such… — Susie Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Why do they call it grief, when really it’s a whole gamut of awful emotions, confusion and regret and anger and guilt… — Kimberly Belle Copy Share Image
“so i will say this- give me your suffering and i swear it will be carried even if that means the death… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
If you want love ever than love your sadness.. because it's rule of the world whom you loved more you got them… — Agidis234 Copy Share Image
“Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Rachael could see the lavender fields from where they sat at the kitchen table. They stretched in a purple haze over the… — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden… — Simon Spurrier Copy Share Image
“Why are the photographs of him as a little boy so incredibly hard to look at? Something is over. Now instead of… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It felt so weird, to be on the other side, where you were the one expected to offer condolences, not receive them.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I gulped; I had the overwhelming sensation that what we had done wasn’t enough. I’m not sure what I had expected, maybe… — Lani Woodland Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us,… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
You listen when I have a problem And help dry the tears from my face. You take away my sorrow And put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable. — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“He nestled in her arms, and she knew she would rather die than let them be parted and face that sadness again;… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one. — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
“If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.” — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
“What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“True, it's not over till it's over. And even when it's over, it just begins again.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Come on now the pain and sorrow of the world, no longer need pain medication or who are ill — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
