“Death sucks,” he said. “It never really gets easier. People say bullshit clichés like ‘time heals all wounds’ to comfort themselves. But… — Julie Johnson Copy Share Image
In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real… — Helena Dela Copy Share Image
“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I got a real dead loving here for you now, because I don't know anymore how to avoid my own face wet… — Juanita Copy Share Image
I love you and miss you. I feel as if the world has changed as if the rain or sun has forgotten… — Mark Hook Copy Share Image
I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“All sorrows in life stem from the lack of cake. If you had your own cake, you wouldn't bother trying to take… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The whole encounter was surreal. No one had mentioned cancer. I hadn’t requested special treatment for Jacob. Yet he’d just nabbed a… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“You don't have to tell me you're fine. I'm not fine. You're not fine either. We can be honest with each other… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
“And yet from thought of death, my friends, I shrink; I want to live - to suffer and to think, To taste… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The selfsame well from which your laughter now rises was once filled with your tears... The deeper sorrow carves into your being,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“As he lay down, a slight sigh spilled from his thin lips. Most likely it was just his chest wound having its… — Hideyuki Kikuchi Copy Share Image
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people that have lost siblings, and it's not really discussed as much. I feel like you talk… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“... in his chest, his heart seeped. It wasn't blood that escaped - that had been shed long ago - but a… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Inside if you, you have the ability to accept that even the most perfect beginnings has the most imperfect endings. The courage… — Julandie Copy Share Image
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You do not have to remain stuck in your grief forever when you realize that your loved ones who have passed continue… — Suzanne Giesemann Copy Share Image
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
“To give yourself for anything means being a martyr. You could lose everything, even yourself, but if what you gain is worth… — Victoria Charis Matthews Copy Share Image
The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
