It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
“Grieving is the process of emotionally navigating a loss. Navigating the loss of a dream is where grief can come as a… — Dana K. White Copy Share Image
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief… — Lindsay Hill Copy Share Image
“Adam pressed his hand to his face. Sighed. "Right. It's just that… He died. And I'm so freaking pissed off, I swear… — Kristina McBride Copy Share Image
“I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings… What is death?... A… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“I think unconsciously I was afraid that if she asked me how I felt, my unleashed grief and rage would kill us… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“Why are the photographs of him as a little boy so incredibly hard to look at? Something is over. Now instead of… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
“All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden… — Simon Spurrier Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It felt so weird, to be on the other side, where you were the one expected to offer condolences, not receive them.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us,… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“In the future, you'll live astride the line separating life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
“Someone you know is carrying a spiritual or physical or emotional burden of some sort, or some other affliction drawn from life's… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Some undefined sorrow was hidden in the hearts of the protagonists as they stood in silence beneath the leafless trees and when… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water tawny color of kicked up dirt Every breath is full of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
In times of sorrow & great despair, never let anyone to make yourself more miserable, instead gain a motivation from within that… — Rhiel14 Copy Share Image
“Sadness and grief aren’t the same thing. It’s why they have different words. Maybe it’s a subtle distinction, but we don’t keep… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
“Grief is not necessarily any prettier than death, and the grief-stricken do not wander like lambs grateful for the shepherd's guidance. They… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I hope we are able to shift debate over to the Middle East and change this debate to how we help the… — Steve King Copy Share Image
It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hope comes in the form of synchronicities. When one even occurs and is followed by another, which is in complete alignment with… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“ 'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my… — Sara Bell Copy Share Image
“The sensation—it’s not sorrow, but something deeper—of being broken. Of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“Free yourself from the poisonous and laborious burden of holding a grudge. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what looks like insensitivity is a mask. A strong face someone puts on. Grief makes you feel vulnerable. And there are… — L.T. Vargus Copy Share Image
“How many times did we pass each other before we met? If only I’d known…. I would have searched for you endlessly.… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
