A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the… — Paula Wall Copy Share Image
“She's breaking inside, the fragile pieces coming away with the water as it pours down on her. Her sorrow is so tangible,… — Ker Dukey Copy Share Image
“And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever,… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Sussex said Byron’s loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn’t want to lose his loss. Loss… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Which ensures that life gets lived in miniature. In lieu of the large feelings—sorrow, fury, joy—I had their junior counterparts—anxiety, irritation, excitement.… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are… — A.W. Streane Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“The tears of those who never cry, the calm, the levelheaded ones, are terrible to see. She seemed to be split or… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
And that's where I think vulnerability comes in - the fact that we're figuring out that there is strength in actually being… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family.… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything… — Joan Abelove Copy Share Image
My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
“Grief isn't something you can finish; it isn't something with a beginning and an end. Grief is something you absorb, something you… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“I can't promise to be calm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea... If my heart's going to break, let… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth –… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
“I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we… — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
“I feel like Sleeping Beauty, forever asleep, with the waking world continuing on without me fully aware. Only there is no prince… — Tiffany Clare Copy Share Image
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development… — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I know that you’re sad right now. Grieve, but don’t hold onto it. Grief smothers out life. Let it go. Remember me… — Kim Holden Copy Share Image
“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image