“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“I was trying to drown my sorrows,” I explained, looking down into the bottom of my glass, “but my sorrows learned to… — Eliza Lentzski Copy Share Image
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Today is the day you have gone away and today is also the day I have died. Lets mourn for me, her… — Crash Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !! Then SHe went and left him restlessly numb. He was her… — Self Copy Share Image
Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“If you're feeling alone in your despair and grief, I want you to know you are not alone. You have an entire… — Pam K. McCarty Copy Share Image
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was conscious all the while in my heart how my fate raced on at breakneck speed, racing and chasing like a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. But watch it, mister. There's a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“ Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years,… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die. (Thomas Campbell) A thousand words won't bring you back,… — Dannygbemius Copy Share Image
But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another. — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
The tears that are falling from my face are not tears of sadness or sorrow just tears of a beautiful memory. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The Backstreet Boys posted a cover of our single 'Good Grief.' It was so cool, and they reached out to us, saying,… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
“Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief. Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! —EDMUND WALLER” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I… — john geddes Copy Share Image
You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
