The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It was in the darkest of my days when you took my sorrow and you took my pain” — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Love's boat has been shatteredagainst the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“They saw him as he was, a full man whose griefs and solaces and talents ran together.” — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life-but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
“When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“If all I can feel is the very fraying edge of their grief, then I do not want to think how dark… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Three words that will kill you no matter what: I LOVE YOU. It could either kill you with happiness, or kill you… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can miss places. You can miss people. Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Are you sad? About saying good-bye tomorrow?” “No. You will ride in a great circle back to me. The Great Ones have… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Embracing what is We’re conditioned to believe that painful feelings are “bad” and that pleasurable ones are “good.” It’s often easier—though not… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“I don't even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
“We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?” — Tyra Lynn Copy Share Image
So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows. — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“I’ve lived my whole life as a burden. She makes me feel weightless.” — Martin Pistorius Copy Share Image
Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
