One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Grief does not kill the light...it reveals it…Agony does not kill the ecstasy…it unfolds it…Dark does not extinguish the Dawn...it unwinds it…” — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.” — Nell Casey Copy Share Image
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin's renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the… — Nirvana Upnishad Copy Share Image
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like employment, active, indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of… — Setterfield Diane Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from… — Jocelyn Murray Copy Share Image
The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A memory that costs you something," he said aloud, almost to himself. "One that hurts to remember. That makes you regret what… — Daria Lavelle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she wondered if it wouldn't have been better to let herself experience it [the grief] in the beginning - like a… — Katie Ganshert Copy Share Image
“The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be. — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. — Bible Copy Share Image
Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“On her own, Grace could be effervescent, illuminating the entire room with her intelligence and wit. Around others she seemed to lose… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs. — Callimachus Copy Share Image
“Grief handed me a heart of iron, and I rusted it with my tears, a muscle not made of flesh, not pumping… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
I discovered on my own that I could cope better with the crippling effects of grief by taking care of myself, eating… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes she wondered if it wouldn't have been better to let herself experience it [the grief] in the beginning - like a Band-Aid torn off quickly. A burst of intense pain that stung and went away. That had to be better than this slow peel of heartache she experienced now. Her rush to forget had…” quote by Katie Ganshert](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/125/katie-ganshert-32292_grief_sometimes-she-wondered-if-it-wouldn-t-ha_540898.jpg)
