We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“They each walked with a limp, because the lifelong journey of grief was setting in. My mom looked at my dad and… — Josh Ross Copy Share Image
“...Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the… — Eldonna Edwards Copy Share Image
“With a damp palm, I turned the knob and cracked open the door. She was asleep in her freshly made bed. I… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Grief is not linear. People kept telling me that once this happened or that passed, everything would be better. Some people gave… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“It was more likely the fear of emptiness, of being left alone in a shadow world when everyone else abandoned me, each… — Ebba Haslund Copy Share Image
Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The sad truths I've been taught by the families of the dead are these: seeing is believing; knowing is better than not… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I would plead as much For you to not weep Think of the happier things So that you may be in a… — Yash Copy Share Image
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
Even though I'm in mourning, I feel an incredible sense of achievement. I can hardly believe I have finally written the ending… — J K Rowling Copy Share Image
When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“This calm which I had just enjoyed was the first apparition of that great intermittent force which was to wage war in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation. I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Crying. Expelling grief from the body in the form of salt water. What's its purpose? How did it evolve, and why are… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“When my first wife died long ago, in Ethiopia, I thought I knew grief. But until you have witnessed the death of… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son,… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Breaking News! Breaking News!!Breaking News!!! There's another plane crash and nobody survived. The plane was carrying all your Problems, Shame, disappointment, discouragement,… — Newlove Copy Share Image
I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations And when Tragedy happens… — Sonny Cele Copy Share Image
“Right you guessed the rising morrow And scorned to tread the mire you must: Dust's your wages, son of sorrow, But men… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
