“Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief,… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“The pain is too much, the loss too great. There is no more before, and the after is too devastating. There isn’t… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog,"… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“In the days after my heart attack & before I began to write again, all I could think about was dying. I'd… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Being authenticis the best thing you can do. No need to hide your sorrow, nor your joy — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell… — George Moses Horton Copy Share Image
You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Think of Today, not Tomorrow. It's time to be Happy, not live a Life of Sorrow. Find out those things that make… — RVM Copy Share Image
“Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.” — Mary Ryan Copy Share Image
“An Elegy A thousand times must we deplore The lost will never come to life again; Even as flowing water runs away,… — Reiko Chiba Copy Share Image
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and finally, grief ends up giving you the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.” — Dana Fuller Ross Copy Share Image
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image