How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Sam rocked backwards and felt all the breath leave his body. Sam felt all his breath leave the room, the apartment, the… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t broken. She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks. She was always trying to keep herself glued together.… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“BLANKET On our bed there is a blanket It has been greeted by strangers Become a desert to missiles Filled with hurtful… — Trisha North Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I often wondered after David’s death: Had they known something then? Did their very souls recognize each other? Did Jacob, closer to… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“ Lord Loss sows all the sorrows of the world Lord Loss seeds the grief-starched trees In the center of the web,… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“And I had loved her, I had at least once in my life been capable of that, able to escape my self… — Wayne Johnston Copy Share Image
“we cried in each other’s arms and I thought that was the end, that we had finished the job of burying him… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits,… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered.… — Rachel L. Schade Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“But the place where we're most broken, most empty of ourselves... is the place where we can be filled in a way… — Laurie Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that we can be whole without that person or thing… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“The grief doesn't go away, ... "But you...get used to it, you know? It's like carrying a heavy stone, one that's really… — Rachel Neumeier Copy Share Image
“And then I’m steered away, flicking a winner’s grin over my shoulder at my girl. It takes a moment to register that… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Im¦ S sorry for whatever I did O over emotional, crying, surprised I bet R really blown away this could never happen… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Im trapped in the darkness of sorrow, I cant find my way out, the only way out is to find the light,… — Alivia Copy Share Image
“Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands… — Natalie Valdes Copy Share Image
It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
