“My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“If she was the only one of her family left, she considered, she carried a responsibility now. She needed to stand up… — Jenny Lecoat Copy Share Image
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the night there were cries of grief. With nothing better to do, Billy shuffled in their direction. He wondered what… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief.… — Mona Caird Copy Share Image
“It was a dark day indeed when I was forced to admit that I was about as “special” and “unique” as a… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“all theories like cliches shot to hell, all these small faces looking up beautiful and believing; I wish to weep but sorrow… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages,… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“It was both terrible and oddly humbling to realize how easily physical discomfort could take control, expanding like poison gas until it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“The gardener who grew ghosts learned that grief is not a problem to solve. It is soil to tend.” — Zain Omarjee Copy Share Image
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache,… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Dear God," she prayed from the very depth of her soul, "help me not to grieve-to willingly let him return to You… — Thyra Ferré Björn Copy Share Image
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.” — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“Nay, the cure of my sorrow must come from gushing tears. Yet, is there any hope that this desolation can bring me… — Imru al-Qays Copy Share Image
I've lost everything!!! and now I should go to sleep n see some dreams, So that when I will wake up, I… — Raghav Singh Copy Share Image
“Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
To end sorrow one must understand the sadness. The pain must be felt, you need to be hurt to know it. — Naseem C Khan Copy Share Image