“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance,… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
“And it gets old to everyone around you. People get tired of you bringing it up. People get burdened by your sadness.… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The pain of your loss will return. Less, but still considerable. I know you've worked hard to release it, but it can… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Many people tried comforting us with words. But there are no consoling words! I really just wanted people to be quiet. I… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The grief I’m feeling is heavy and raw, pressing down on me, breaking my chest apart. It hurts to even touch the… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
“When there is a huge crack in your relationship with someone, you wonder what others do in similar situations. I realize I'm… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
“When you weep, Jesus weeps with you. And together you enter into the dance of tears. The dance of tears with Jesus… — Catherine Martin Copy Share Image
How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and… — Fumiko Enchi Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people translates itself into some very different questions, no… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“They had become muffled and distant then anyway. This happened in those first days after the wave. I couldn't find their faces,… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“You need to keep those memories close; you need to celebrate the child who saved spiders and made keen observations and had… — Janis Thomas Copy Share Image
Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Adieu, Love. Adieu, Passion. Adieu, Romance. Adieu, Joy. Surely the sweetest sorrow of them all. I shall miss your soft kiss, your… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for… — Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Copy Share Image
“A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your… — Beth Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front… — Judith Tarr Copy Share Image
“I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My mom is my biggest support and critic. I've tried to be a good son, and I don't think I've given her… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is gonna take away the hurt and all the pain...well I've tried hiding… — Haylee Copy Share Image
“And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby.… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
