“In Louisiana, one of the first stages of grief is eating your weight in Popeyes fried chicken. The second stage is doing… — Ken Wheaton Copy Share Image
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“On the way home I thought: How strange. I didn't even mention my breakdown today. Perhaps the period of mourning is over.… — Ellen Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Only then did I allow myself to cry. I hoped against hope that no one could hear me. Something ended that night,… — Mariam Petrosyan Copy Share Image
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life Is Like Mathematics. It's so complicated. But, all you have to do is,,, You just, [+] Add Friends, [-] Subtract Enemies,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
“Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it… — Clark Davis Love Comes Softly Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I find,' he says, his voice still muffled, 'that I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
A fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals. And if, when it happens to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was like a nightmare that can make you scream cause no body wants to die too fast. That retched day of… — Reluctant Hero's Part 1 Copy Share Image
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Its said that all the lost souls that drown at sea are carried through the waves to rest in the Seas of… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“I knew from experience there isn't anything anyone can really say to help you through your grief. You just have to let… — Koethi Zan Copy Share Image
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's been a long day without my friend and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. We've come… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
“We can be so heavily invested in our tales of sorrow and woe that we have no clue how much repeating that… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
“unscathed. As a victim, you might be taken to the point of not wanting to live anymore due to the loss of… — Steve Craig Copy Share Image
Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“Grief wasn't a feeling. It was a thing that visited. It was a weight, a lead wall, and it pressed on her… — Meg Gardiner Copy Share Image
“No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns,… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
“She shoved open her car door and moved to get out. Instead she dropped her head to the steering wheel. She tried… — Ann Wertz Garvin Copy Share Image
“All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Because I was alone, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning…My emotions were similarly amplified: the highs were higher; the periods of… — Jon Krakaur Copy Share Image
“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
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