But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“A psychiatrist friend explained to me that humans are evolutionarily wired for both connection and grief: we naturally have the tools to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“It was like missing a train-or something more important, something that would never come again. There was no explanation for the grief… — Anny Tyler Copy Share Image
I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who… — Nick Xenophon Copy Share Image
The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So many people confuse attachment with love. Attachment to someone implies control; loving someone assumes unconditional acceptance. Attachment leads to grief and… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the… — Hemley Boum Copy Share Image
“It’s just never going to get any easier is it. It’s never going away, this missing you. It’s going to become a… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“moments of something this good, this unexpected and off his usual path, they always dredged up old shit, like somehow happiness came… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
“Trees do mourn the loss of their leaves. This fall, take a moment to listen to their mourning and observe how easily… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It's a survival technique. You can't stand to be around when there's… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“We are all pushed into a world of madness, yet it must now fall to each of us to pull back from… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“bones. Grief. This is grief—and I’ve brought it on myself. Deep down, a nasty, unbidden thought comes from my inner goddess, her… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“You will grieve for a lifetime. Each person should be allowed to grieve in his or her own way and time. Some… — Pam K. McCarty Copy Share Image
“But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“Lord, as the seasons turn, creation teaches us of grief, patience, and renewal. Make us good students of these rhythms that we… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“They were all very much of a type, tall and narrow-faced, eyes pale blue and pale green and pale gray, their features… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I now know pain is part of any journey- that this is the opposite of grief, but grief the only way I… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Giacomina had taught her daughter that you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
“My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
“Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be re-created—not with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...it is not news that we live in a world Where beauty is unexplainable And suddenly ruined And has its own routines.… — Charlie Smith Copy Share Image
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I remember thinking, “How does anyone survive something like this? And if they do, what kind of person comes out the other… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
