“When I thought I felt better, grief shot its silver tip arrow at my heart to remind me that it was still… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
“Think about it. The selfsame well from which your laughter now rises was once filled with your tears. How else can it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And he had begun to feel then what he was feeling now: the complex and awful mental and physical interaction that is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
“There was a warrior once who fought Against man's subtlest, mightiest foe, And more than valiant deeds he wrought T' effect th'… — Thomas Gillet Copy Share Image
I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Are you sometimes scared, or happy, just like that, out of the blue, apropos of nothing? You hurry out on some stupid… — Max Frei Copy Share Image
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
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“There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
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From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of… — Azim Khamisa Copy Share Image
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home,… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I… — Susan Smith Copy Share Image
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Each grass from a lifeless grain is bred, Else to harvest no wheat were won: Always from good is good begun. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my… — Zhang Zai Copy Share Image
Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Some sorrows, some emotions, Life is revolution. Love, hurt, happiness and joy, They all come with life's convoy. Even when things seem… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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![“These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9e0/barack-obama-17_coordination_these-kinds-of-tragedies-like-shooting-i_509305.jpg)
