“I buckle over, sobbing, my head resting against the hard shower tiles. I remember crying like this when Sukey died, the tears… — Hilary T. Smith Copy Share Image
“In all my wanderings through this world of care, In all my griefs -- and God has given my share -- I… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Dr. Chef knew exactly where all of his feelings were, every joy, every ache. He didn’t need to visit them all at… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“I live every day knowing that today might be the day that my cancer returns. But rather than look at this as… — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Our days flowed around well-charted, often traveled courses, and yet, the underlying sense of falling out of time, out of the trajectory… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“You learn to focus on the living,” he explained, still embracing her. “People will always die. It is simply a fact. Sometimes… — Sara C. Roethle Copy Share Image
“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“My distant but always a close friend, the loss of a mother is always painful for her children, I am beside you… — Nuno Rosa Copy Share Image
“Last night he kept the vigil alone. He lay awake, wishing Liz back; waiting for her to come and lie beside him.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
No president ever puts American lives at risk without a terrible sense of responsibility. And no American ever hears or reads of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Some people are never overcome by anything: not by grief, not by love, not by anything or anyone. They never hold on… — C. JoyBell C.Bell C Copy Share Image
“If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I was sitting in front of the hut and watching the ground darken and the sea grow a phosphorescent green. Not a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“grief. Whatever our loss and however deep our grief, eventually we come to some kind of crossroads that requires us to make… — Ramon Presson Copy Share Image
“I made an attempt to reach him in his grief. I said, "I've had this pain. To tell you it will go… — Eli Brown Copy Share Image
“Experiencing grief and pain is like falling off a cliff. Everything has been turned upside down, and we are no longer in… — Dustin Shramek Copy Share Image
“We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our… — Keith Heyer Meldahl Copy Share Image
But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Here is Abraham Lincoln’s touching condolence letter to 22-year-old Fanny McCullough, the daughter of a long-time friend: “Dear Fanny It is with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“O even as here thou art, aslumber in death, So shalt thou slumber down the rest of time, Released from every harrying… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Closing my eyes, I then focused in on the lyrics. I couldn't help thinking how much the song meant to me because… — Katie Ashley Copy Share Image
“Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And no one in a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“A little sadness is good for everyone. It's da only way ya gets to happiness. If you happy all da time, you… — Robin Schwarz Copy Share Image
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Our study of psychoneurotic disturbances points to a more comprehensive explanation, which includes that of Westermarck. When a wife loses her husband,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion snares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Travers’s problem is how to come to terms with the violence that has pursued his life - not merely the violence of… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
