“One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“That goes for old wounds, too, you know. I really wish we'd had the chance to talk before this," he says, cracking… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“Even if the family is wrestling through theological issues related to their child's diagnosis, it is less important that the church leader… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
Hate Together With love, joy Together with sorrow, Cry Together With Laughter, Life Together With Death, and Lose Together With Gets, Something… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar,… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Because I'm terrified that if you could see the depth of my pain, the extent of my sorrow, you could never love… — Scarlet Koop Copy Share Image
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.” — Susan Mallery 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
“That's the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief” — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
“Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. — Jeanie Cameron Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak ... Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.” — J.W. Lynne Copy Share Image