“I was walking along one day and smacked into this wall called hope deferred and depression and...grief. And it wouldn't budge. After… — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Some days he wishes that he could simply empty the chambers of the men, fill the halls instead with women: the short… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The intensity of my grief hits the mountains across Eclipse Sound, and then echoes throughout Arctic. There’s nobody around. I can barely… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“Love Sorrow Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must take care of what has been given. Brush her hair, help… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“How the sadness is handled by the physician has a powerful impact on the medical care received by the patients. If the… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
I'd been drifting and in a very self-destructive bent ever since my mother died and as soon as I dealt with the… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
“The first is the sorrow and pain of (need) sickness; 5. The second, the massive burning and destruction of many cities; 6.… — Joseph B. Lumpkin Copy Share Image
“And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
“When you lose someone you love, there is a tear in the fabric of the universe. It's the scar you feel for,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“Burial Cathy Linh Che There is the rain, the odor of fresh earth, and you, grandmother, in a box. I bury the… — Cathy Linh Che Copy Share Image
“I wanted to cry from the frustration. The conclusion to my thoughts directed me to a dead end. There really was no… — R.J. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The same is true for your fiancée, Bewildered. She is your joy on wheels whose every experience is informed and altered by… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The description of shock and grief hot so close to home: "but sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“A feeling of pleasure or solace can be so hard to find when you are in the depths of your grief. Sometimes… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“Everyone was certain that Engineer Safa would go chasing after his wife or he would die of sorrow. Not so. The engineer… — Goli Taraghi Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that grief is like a tunnel. You enter it without a choice because you must get to the… — Loretta Nyhan Copy Share Image
“It is poor solace to speak of the passing of time and grief," the master said. His quiet voice had gone somehow… — Rachel Neumeier Copy Share Image
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“everything has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I admit I must have been impossible to live with. It was the self-righteousness of the grieving--my idea that I would betray… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Now, granted, there are still as many heartbreaking things going on. There are so many things in the Obama administration to be… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“(Streets of Sorrow) Oh, farewell you streets of sorrow Oh, farewell you streets of pain I'll not return to feel more sorrow… — The Pogues Copy Share Image
I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“CALVARY, JUDAEA, APRIL 3RD 33AD The man sat alone, lost in his thoughts. The world in front of him hazy and… — Julian Noyce Copy Share Image
“In so speaking they saw further than the flesh. In their remorse and disgust it was not mere physical disillusionment that so… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss… — Melody Aurora Copy Share Image
“so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Many people suffer great miseries but if you ask them in front of others, 'you went through great difficulty, didn't you?', then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“I remember at that time I went to the hairdresser's. I did this regularly, but I remember that visit for two particular… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
“Let us always praise His name - in times of joy, in times of tribulation, in times of sorrow, in times of… — Pauline Creeden Copy Share Image
“Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully, survivors must bring all of… — Harold Ivan Smith Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
