Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“ So much ice. She thumbed a drying tear away. How much water can the weight of ice carry? ” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy. — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
“ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT: PAIN YOU'VE BEEN FEELING WILL SOON GO AWAY.. ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT: JOY IS ON THE WAY.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Who were these people? Where was all this joy, and where does joy go when it leaves your family? Does it go… — Crystal Chan Copy Share Image
From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of… — Azim Khamisa Copy Share Image
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home,… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“I’m tempted to walk away from this city and this life and this relationship that’s brought me the greatest feelings of joy… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
“We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“I’m bound together now in both sadness and hope. I feel grief every day, even if it’s a whisper in the background… — Cheri Davies Copy Share Image
“Laughter was good medicine for the soul, and looking for things to be joyful about had helped Emma through the worst of… — Wanda E. Brunstetter Copy Share Image
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.” — Carol Cassella Copy Share Image
“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Healing is not about moving on or “getting over it,” it’s about learning to make peace with our pain and finding purpose… — Shirley Kamisky Copy Share Image
“There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
