This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“As I walk through the redwood trees, my sneakers sopping up days of rain, I wonder why bereaved people even bother with… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s times like this…. when it’s over a year later and I’m still crying over you that I want to turn to… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“While grief is a natural part of any special needs parent's journey, it may be processed somewhat differently for the family affected… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart,… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He had been wont to despise emotions: girls were weak, emotions–tears– were weakness. But this morning he was thinking that being a… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“No. Really. I've thought about it a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you,… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“And afterward, I stopped at Red Cloud's grave to pay my respects to the old chief. Some Oglalas had left him tobacco… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“We trust that acknowledging and releasing grief, pain and other unmentionable feelings is a most healing and blessed function, since it allows… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“It is letting go of the dream, the idea / concept, of the relationship that causes the most grief in every relationship… — Robert Burney Copy Share Image
“I initially discovered hiraeth on social media, and it made me suck in my breath as something stirred deep within me. It's… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't… — Elif Safak 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
