“all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not the absence of company, it is grief over that absence.” — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to spend any more time inside the mind of an economist. It was dark and disturbing.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nam acts like a balm that heals the wounded soul, wounded by sin, grief or distress in life.” — Ranbir Singh Copy Share Image
“I sometimes hold it half a sin to put in words the grief I feel; for words, like Nature, half reveal and… — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Before you judge me by my life my past or my character Walk in my shoes walk the path I have traveled… — Hamza Irshad Butt Copy Share Image
“...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagination is more important than knowledge, myth more than history and dreams more than facts. Hope always triumphs over experience and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“I stood there, staring at my clothes. What does a mama wear to her son’s funeral? I looked over my wardrobe.There were… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt!… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“In the days after my heart attack & before I began to write again, all I could think about was dying. I'd… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog,"… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
![“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/60e/heloise-27050_abandonment_a-s-though-mindful-of-the-wife-of-lot-wh_2879511.png)
