“But grief always hits hard and somehow lingers longer than exultation in your mind and heart,” — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this: I have a responsibility I need to fathom. I have a… — Michelle Dicinoski Copy Share Image
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Apollo felt as if he glowed with grief, poisoned with mourning instead of radiation.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“Grief isn’t an illness though, is it?’ Anna’s face crumples. ‘It’s not as if you get better , like you do with… — Louise Jensen Copy Share Image
After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“That’s it. I’m asking you, I’m really asking you—how is it possible that we aren’t in a permanent state of mourning?” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.” — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
“Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“When you lose the person that's most important to you, it can feel like your life's over and all you can do… — Sparkling Amethyst Copy Share Image
“Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything. It was as if I was on top of the… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“... People like to know what they are getting ahead of time. Thus, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, F.W. Woolworth: store-brands maintained and visible across… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Because in our pain we must find each other – mirror to mirror the grace of our shared humanity, the stunningly broken… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the hardest goodbyes are the ones never said, the ones that always just hang there in the back of the mind… — Virginia Brown Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned there are no stages to grief. The famous stages of dying (denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance, etc.) apply to people who… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another!… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.- -"And?" And it makes you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills. — Arnel Pineda Copy Share Image
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved… — Nami Mun Copy Share Image
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“So I shall practice sorrow in my love, stand in thin sun from old windows and grieve: inevitability of the grave, monotony… — Grace Butcher Copy Share Image
“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds, for the things that die before their time. — Counting Crows Copy Share Image
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“For sorrow to which one gives voice is worth nothing if it does not touch the heart.” — Chrétien de Troyes Copy Share Image
'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“I have felt the highest of Joys and I have felt the true pit of sorrow – all in just thirteen hours.” — C. David Murphy Copy Share Image
