“But our grief was useless. Salt water, spilled on the ground, does not feed what grows there, but kills it.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there… — Kathleen Collins Copy Share Image
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I lost myself in sorrow, I lost myself in pain, I lost myself in gravity, memory leave. — REM Copy Share Image
“I miss myself." "I miss you too, Ali, so much." "I never planned to get like this." "I know.” — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future,… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“Grief isn’t linear, it isn’t logical. There’s no structure or civility to it. It grabs you when you least expect it and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do not be troubled or weighed down with grief. Do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not… — Francis Johnston Copy Share Image
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“There are, apparently, persons who are deeply afraid of their own emotions, particularly the painful ones. Grief, regret, sadness. Sadness especially, perhaps.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Like Seita and Setsuko, like Chihiro - like Sophie Hatter who disappears from her dreary life into a world of talking fireballs… — Karl Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
I loved you!” he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. “I loved you,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I wanted to turn on the table saw and rip a plank, but I had to drive to the airport. I had… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Sarah, though, was still sometimes ruled by stark pain, lost to everything else. Grief slipped away, only to attack from behind. It… — Kate Maloy Copy Share Image
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you must steal, steal my sorrows. If you must lie, lie with me. & if you must cheat, cheat death, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together! — Thomas Parsons Copy Share Image
“but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your eyes are like the ocean: filled with worries and untold stories and behind your smile is pain. If you let me… — Reina Copy Share Image
“You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing… — Melissa C. Walker Copy Share Image
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north… — Sting Copy Share Image
The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage.” — gregory david roberts Copy Share Image
