I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Rachael could see the lavender fields from where they sat at the kitchen table. They stretched in a purple haze over the… — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
“Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you lose the person that's most important to you, it can feel like your life's over and all you can do… — Sparkling Amethyst Copy Share Image
“And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything. It was as if I was on top of the… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Cullan was not getting enough sleep without Alynna beside him, and as much as he did not want to admit it, he… — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
“We have a soul at times. No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“He knew. Right away. He looked at our faces and knew. They often do. Some claim that the first step in the… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Grief is not an identity. What feels so solid and real as a grief reaction (or any other reaction) in any moment… — Sameet M. Kumar Copy Share Image
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is both a vaccine and an antidote for grief. Grief may be an inevitable fact of life, but gratitude has the… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off… — MacDonald George Copy Share Image
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine… — Gibran Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One can't share happiness if not felt. One can't live happily if happiness is unexpressed. Through life contentment is searched for often… — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I have been blessed by those I cannot see, but whose presence I feel. I know that I am not alone and… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
“The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
