There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear. — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And then because hope will break the heart better than any sorrow, she started to cry.” — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“What’s the benefit of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then? There is good… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
In grief, there isn't time to want to be like someone else. Trauma means reacting in the moment, as you are. You… — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“Most of the Times, Life shows us how difficult this journey is, only at Times when the sun clears we see the… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The curious advantage of being able to survey the span of someone else’s life, from start to finish, can seem peremptory, high-handed,… — James Woods Copy Share Image
“Mom, mom, mom, mom! A yowl rose from my gut, my bowels, my womb, raw as a birth cry but with no… — Lorna Crozier Copy Share Image
“Life is a mix of emotions in the many matters of the heart: FROM THE HEART Sorrow at the loss of a… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“...this woman, moved by some private sorrow as much as the words being spoken, cried almost silently, unobserved by others, apart from… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
