“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked... The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... I say… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“We continue the chain of generations and, knowingly or not, willingly or unwillingly, we pay debts of the past: as long as… — Anne Ancelin Schutzenburger Copy Share Image
There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“So much of who I was had become lost, diluted, fragmented. I was being pulled and stretched in every which way, dragged… — Bianca Scardoni Copy Share Image
“Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“I wanted very much not to be where I was. In fact part of the trouble seemed to be that where I… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“I felt like the ocean. I felt like my insides were spread out so far and wide and there were so many… — Anna Akana Copy Share Image
I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I was easier to shake off for you because you’re such a together person. I was just an extra layer on… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "exactly what happened in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Jeanne’s sisters thought nothing of themselves… Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," Leo murmured and then seemed to look through Martin for a few seconds before he returned his gaze to him.… — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
Although my love for you runs deep within my heart, you filled my soul with sorrow and pain. Because of you, we… — Angela Bishop Copy Share Image
“As ever, his grief made my heart ache. "Ambition is a dangerous thing," I murmured. "One can harbor it unknowing, only to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“The living have to live with it. You don’t. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“I loved everything about her, and I didn't care how dark she got. If anything it was what I loved the most,… — Brendan Cowell Copy Share Image
“The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I've heard you say so many a time That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines to… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief…. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance ….. What they… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I now knew there was no such thing as a broken heart. It will go on beating to taunt you and mock… — Clara Kramer Copy Share Image
“But, astonishingly, I'm not broken. I'm not destroyed. Terrified witless, shaking, retching with fear, yes. But no longer insecure. Because during my… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
“Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for… — Homer Copy Share Image
“You always forget that it's impossible to grieve every minute of the day. You always forget that a mourning period can include… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
One thing I've heard that makes sense to me about grief is that there's this conception that it's a thing that you… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away… — Christine O'Keeffe Lafser Copy Share Image
I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
