“I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.” — Seré Prince Halverson 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
Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . .… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The night that our friend's wife died, my brokenhearted husband called his mother: "What do I say?"... There is nothing to say.… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated,… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
His gaze against the sweeping of the bars / has grown so weary, it can hold no more. To him, there seem… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People… — Susan Dormady Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
How can she explain to him that every tear takes her further and further away from the box of razors that lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
“There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken. There is a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is… — Bri Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
“The Staging In the weeks after my mother's death, I sleep Four or five hours a night, often interrupted By dreams, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“There was a time, I know, when I felt rage and I felt sorrow. But now I have lost what leads up… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore. I was just me. I was whole again. I was… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
Ain't no shame in holding on to grief, as long as you make room for other things too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.” — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Something writhed inside me and for a moment I was back in those long dark days when my world was so small… — Jodi Taylor Copy Share Image
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“And man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness) — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“Turns out grief not only morphs time, but space too. Somehow increases the distance between you and other people.” — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
