So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning?… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Life is like paper. Don't make it heavy by drowning it into water of sorrow and pain. Instead make it lighter by… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure… — allimachus and Lycophron CXLII Copy Share Image
That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel hunted by my grief. It circles me, stalks me. It's always in my periphery. Sometimes I can fake it… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
After awhile you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the… — Linda Austin Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
Heaven needed an angel and god sent for you, You are gone from me forever, Now what am I to do, I… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Do not be troubled or weighed down with grief. Do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not… — Francis Johnston Copy Share Image
I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean,… — Scott Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Healing from grief is about finding a new dimension to an old relationship. The person you love, the place you lived, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
“The heart breaks open,...'I know now that we never get over great losses: we absorb them, and they carve us into different,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
“I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a time, we do… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“I had often marked the contrast between their almost ludicrous gaiety and my lonely existence, sometimes with scorn, sometimes with a feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
“Just as a snowflake went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the pumpkin patch is… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in the world… — Natasha Anders Copy Share Image
I have to accept people, who cause pain as mere actors playing their role in my drama of life. From the time… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delinaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to… — Cynthia Wright Copy Share Image
