I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In 'Good Grief', in trying to create this sense of the huge downs and ups, stumbles of this process, we're almost using… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
It's been six months, half a year, Yet still that dy day remains chrystal clear. All the pain and stupidity to follow,… — Elizabeth Revontlow Copy Share Image
“Serena Smith,” he began gravely. “From this heartbeat until my last, I share your blood and bone, joy and grief. No words… — S.B. Nova Copy Share Image
“Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
There's been no end to the grief Mitch McConnell's taken for his declaration early in Barack Obama's first term that his party's… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes; I wonder if It weighs like Mine, Or has an Easier size.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I am a wife, mother, and friend, and soon to be grandmother, I still feel, understand, and am worthy of the love… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Journeying through grief is one of the most "normal human" experiences you can have. Nevertheless, all too frequently the heartbroken seem to… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
“To pass over grief, they say, the Italian sleeps; the Frenchman sings; the German drinks; the Spaniard laments, and the Englishman goes… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death.… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“Try to be thoughtful, don't make the poor man say it; see how human he is, he has children of his own,… — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is…or how devastating. One story… — Bhaskaryya Deka Copy Share Image
With time, tears will dry and be overcome by a smile, joy will overcome sorrow, crowd will overcome loneliness, words will overcome… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“So rather than bring you sorrow, I write to refresh you and pass along a few things I have learned over the… — Brett Champan Copy Share Image
“Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries… — Neena Verma Copy Share Image
True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
“Fairness demanded that grief should find succor, that wounds should heal, insult and confusion find recompense and certainty, that every living person… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it,… — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
“You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy]… — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image
“Life’s problems cannot be resolved if they are buried. We bury what is finished; obsolete. We bury what we cannot restore. Grief… — K.M. Golland Copy Share Image
“Cooper's tremendous love and energy and unchained freedom had captured life itself. Now, as the last shovelful covered him forever, I knew… — Peter Jenkins Copy Share Image
“This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief is a profound part of recovery and new life. Tears of regrets, remorse and despair waters the roots of love and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just how much sadness my death will cause you. Undoubtedly you will weep when you learn the news--apart, of course, from such ornamental sentimentality as you may indulge in--but if you will please try to…” quote by Osamu Dazai](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ef/osamu-dazai-2813_believe_now-even-if-i-die-no-one-will-be-so-grie_1520758.jpg)
![“You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy] Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*. [she gestures to a field of daisies]” quote by Colin Higgins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c68/colin-higgins-56089_grief_you-see-harold-i-feel-that-much-of-the-w_2484903.jpg)
