“Dear refuge of my weary soul, On thee, when sorrows rise, On thee, when waves of trouble roll, My fainting hope relies.” — Anne Steele Copy Share Image
“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ” — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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
“He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I… — Susan Smith Copy Share Image
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Each grass from a lifeless grain is bred, Else to harvest no wheat were won: Always from good is good begun. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You go to bed different... tossing and turning is the norm... you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever… — Erica Stone Copy Share Image
“Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“Hello grief Good morning grief insect that lurks in me and all night long lies in wait till I open my eye… — Odysseus Elytis Copy Share Image
All my dreams have Withered and died. For this is the truth I can no longer hide. I was left with nothing… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“And that’s the worst of it, the part no one ever tells you about.” “What part?” he said, his voice still clenched… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“Dear Mother Dark, do you look down upon me, now? Do you see me, your child? Do you smile, to see me… — Steven Erikson 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
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back.… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
Behind your smile, I know there are sorrows. Behind your laughters, I know there are tears. But I want you 2 know… — Se7en Copy Share Image
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that… — Shelley Ramsey Grief A Mama's Unwanted Journey Copy Share Image
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
