“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But the flames did die down, perhaps from lack, perhaps from excess of fuel. Little by little, love was quenched by absence,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It’s very difficult to give up on things we can’t control. And that’s what a divorce represents. It represents the ultimate loss… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“To remember sometimes is a great sorrow, but when the remembering has been done, there comes afterwards a very curious peacefulness. Because… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Things need to change, before I drown in my tears, sorrow and pain.. I cant handle all this shit life is throwing… — Megannn Copy Share Image
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“Every tear that I shed in pain of the grief gift of your love, I do not cry tears as if I… — Sappho Khizar Copy Share Image
“This is how it is to come near you A wave of light builds in the black pupil of the eye. The… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' The… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Old Marsh wore a look of sorrow upon his face. “You called him, miss. You called him. You must send him back… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
“I used to cry to the stars in the sky and begged them to have mercy on me cause I longed for… — Magdalena Ganowska Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how well you are doing,” John complimented me just a few minutes after he mentioned the Christmas card.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world. One: I see a theme park where there are lots of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“My grandmother’s unkindness, for instance, was the result of repressed grief over three deaths: her parents, before she was twelve, and her… — Nancy Cobb Copy Share Image
“We don't know predestined ways, or what future might behold, someone leaves,someone remains, and new things replace the old. We don't know… — Aleksandra Ninkovic Copy Share Image
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a… — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
“Here's the truth of the matter: growth is not the goal of grieving. Nor is it a mark that someone has grieved… — Eleanor Haley Copy Share Image
“It has taken me four years to figure this out. If we live long enough, we all will experience this. Don’t ever… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Why shouldn't his death bring you into some total scandal of garment-rending grief? Why should you accommodate his death? Or surrender to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“from HOUSEKEEPING, by Marilynne Robinson: There is remembrance, and communion, altogether human and unhallowed. For families will not be broken. Curse and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image