“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore. I was just me. I was whole again. I was… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . .… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger. "Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms.… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“But here’s what grieving people wish others would understand: grief is incredibly, relentlessly lonely. It really makes a huge difference to be… — Nancy Guthrie Copy Share Image
“She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hands are clutched around the… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing… — Belinda Jeffrey Copy Share Image
I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“She heard hearts bounce, tears brewing, and breath going backward, but nobody said a word. By the sorrow and loss and sweetness… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Book-club night stopped abruptly when Caleb died. For almost a year and a half, as if by some type of tacit agreement,… — Francis L. Guenette Copy Share Image
Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this,"… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“When I became an imprint of my surroundings, I began to disappear into the tragedy of acceptance.” — Damond Jiniya Copy Share Image
“If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen’s mirror would definitely say it was… — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Something writhed inside me and for a moment I was back in those long dark days when my world was so small… — Jodi Taylor Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.” — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
Ain't no shame in holding on to grief, as long as you make room for other things too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“..grief never goes away. And that's no bad thing - it's only the other side of love, after all.” — Carys Bray Copy Share Image
“It is too late. I love him. I know it may bring me grief, and I can't do a thing about it.… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
Merciful God, release us from the time of trial and oppression, that we may witness to the eternal hope of grief becoming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
