“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood… — Unica Zürn Copy Share Image
“And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile… — Jennifer Ryan Copy Share Image
“There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
“This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed… — Kurban Said Copy Share Image
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Her empathy was like a double-edged razor that allowed her to experience the nethermost of human joys and sorrows. The best and… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“there is a list of questions i want to ask but never will there is a list of questions i go through… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest.But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
“Pressing my head to his heart, I listened hard, straining to hear any gurgle or murmur of life. Hearing nothing, I felt… — Karen Ann Hopkins Copy Share Image
Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“In my life, no three miles have been flat and no three days have had sun. I've been brave in the past,… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
When I talk to people about going sugar-free, they almost go into a state of grief! But there are still options out… — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition… — Thomas Attig Copy Share Image
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“It’s the intricate details you miss the most. For me, it’s the soft lines around the eyes when he smiles… Or that… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
“It is nothing but a kind of microcosmos of communism—all that psychiatry,' rumbled Pnin, in his answer to Chateau. 'Why not leave… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“My eyes were stinging, my body shaking, and my heart seemed to be just aching deep in my chest. (...) I should… — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image