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
“You left and took the light with you— I am lost. I don't know how to come back.” — Arvyn Cerézo Copy Share Image
“... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back… All those years I spent unhappy with him ….… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“the friend neither sang of grief, nor open his heart to me he muttled in his inquisition and wasted his life and… — William Graham Lorenzo Haehnle Copy Share Image
“When a tsunami hits, you know, on the one hand it's complete destruction, and on the other hand now you have this… — Rachel Goldberg-Polin Copy Share Image
Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Copy Share Image
“We all have our little sorrows...and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow.” — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Those who have slept with sorrow in their hearts Know all too well how short but sweet The instant of their coming-to… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“Hope lives. No matter the mistakes we make, no matter our blunders and misunderstandings, no matter the grief and sorrow and loss,… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
“What were you going to make for Christmas dinner?” one of my older children asked in a very reasonable tone. I cleared… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“How to read this book: Even after I was told my father was dead, I believed (I still believe) that I could… — Christopher Boucher Copy Share Image
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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