Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“ So much ice. She thumbed a drying tear away. How much water can the weight of ice carry? ” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Regret, hurt, bereavement, loss, to permit the flow of even one tear at the upwelling of such feelings was to imperil ancient… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“Grief lingers, and the ache of loss; those things don't change. But seeping into every leaf, a little guilty burns away each… — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“In the library I search for a good book. We have many books, says Mrs. Rose, the librarian, and ALL of them… — Sally Murphy Copy Share Image
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my… — William Somervile Copy Share Image
You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Closing my eyes, I then focused in on the lyrics. I couldn't help thinking how much the song meant to me because… — Katie Ashley Copy Share Image
“Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And no one in a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“I’m bound together now in both sadness and hope. I feel grief every day, even if it’s a whisper in the background… — Cheri Davies Copy Share Image
“Laughter was good medicine for the soul, and looking for things to be joyful about had helped Emma through the worst of… — Wanda E. Brunstetter Copy Share Image
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.” — Carol Cassella Copy Share Image
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Healing is not about moving on or “getting over it,” it’s about learning to make peace with our pain and finding purpose… — Shirley Kamisky Copy Share Image
