“The Women in Black are Israeli Jews who meet wall in Jerusalem. They meet every Friday, the Sabbath evening, and pray. They… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“You have broken my heart. Just as well. Now I am learning to rise above all that, learning the thin life, waking… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“And so we sat there in the sickening sillage of the truth, neither of us angry, or upset, just muddling through this… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Wolverine and Spider-Man on depression: --Wanna know why it's called "depression"? Because it IS depressing... A death isn't like losing a job… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“GRIEF IS A BY-PRODUCT of love. Because we loved, so must we grieve when the person we love is no longer physically… — Lucy Hone Copy Share Image
“Time Out To Cry © All alone at the end of the day The time, just a little past ten Evening has… — Shannen Wrass Copy Share Image
“I wish I could hold time in my hands. I wish I could talk to it. Oh, how I would ask it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“So it is the old meat after all, no matter how old. Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it wont… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“Grief is by nature the most violent of them all. The ancients tore their hair and rent their clothing to express it.… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“You’re a heartbreaker, Isabelle Lightwood,” he said, as lightly as he could with her blood still running through him like fire. “Jace… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as "anticipatory grief," the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory.… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Many survivors of relational and other forms of early life trauma are deeply troubled and often struggle with feelings of anger, grief,… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“His name was Sam.” She was still staring at the fire. Was Sam … “What happened?” She looked at him, smiling sadly.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“She wanted to die. She wanted to die. Because then it would be over. All the loss, all the grief, all the… — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
“Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes,… — Carol Cassella Copy Share Image
