Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“How will I go on without her?! The answer was very simple: one day at a time.” — Jeff Erno Copy Share Image
“Some sorrows are so large they cannot be carried by a single pair of hands...” — Laura Kauffman Copy Share Image
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“When you live in a way that's too different from everyone else, you get grief about it. Is it fair? No, but… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Don’t let grief be the end of your story. Let it be the beginning of the bridge you build, step by step,… — Christina Stiverson Copy Share Image
“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. — Anne Grant Copy Share Image
“…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always… — Homer Copy Share Image
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief doesn't come in a landslide. It seeps in,while you are sleeping. First you start in dreaming. Then your wake-up time carries… — Jerrie Oughton Copy Share Image
“I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.) for: the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Grief is part of my human experience. There will always be loss during my lifetime. Loss has come in a variety of… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up… — Terri Irwin 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.” — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
“Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.” — Amy McNamara Copy Share Image
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus Copy Share Image