Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as… — Bel Mooney Copy Share Image
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Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
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The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“October Fullness” Little by little, and also in great leaps, life happened to me, and how insignificant this business is. These veins… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
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Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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Though my heart may be heavy with grief, I will keep my head up and smile about the good things despite tears.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
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... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
“When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
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If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; its a shame that… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
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“Death was a quiet evil, unavoidable like the dark night and defenseless sleep and tearful sorrows. It had hunted her down and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
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