When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief…Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“A grieving process alongside career change is perfectly normal. The key is to accepting resistance and anticipating it instead of trying to… — Adele Barlow Copy Share Image
The day you went away, my world slipped away, as if I were to roam the sky with a thousand butterflies, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The graces are restless today. They pweet and muss, shuddering their wings so that the feathers stick out at defensive angles. I… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the process of decluttering things in my life, I was peeling off the layers of my past that no longer mattered… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
“And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Momma will be forever remembered with the love, kindness, and warmth she brought to so many lives. Grief is something that all… — Tammi Post Copy Share Image
So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
“We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
“I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Those who have lost loved ones to situations from which their bodies could not be recovered often suffer from prolonged periods of… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
“Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“After a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“in this life it’s best to keep the then and the now and the what’s-to-be as close together in your thoughts as… — Jeannette Haien Copy Share Image
“I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on my son’s floor and tried to drink in his scent, to… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
“I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain… — Jason Leclerc Copy Share Image
“A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be… — Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D Copy Share Image
“That life isn't fair?" Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“... this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
“As my life changed in that non-descript doctor’s office, everything around me remained the same. It was as if everyone around me… — Cheri Davies Copy Share Image
“They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“But even of him I can think of with sorrow, now at this moment. Those times, those people...have gone. How can there… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was heartfelt, it was heartbreaking. It was extreme joy, it was bone-crushing grief. It was fiery hot, it was icy-cold. It… — S.C. Stephens Copy Share Image
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I climbed aboard a Greyhound bus and rode it to New York without telling anyone, without so much as a goodbye. What… — Ken Wheaton Copy Share Image
“so i will say this- give me your suffering and i swear it will be carried even if that means the death… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
