“It was my companion, my strange friend who woke me in the night and again in the morning and who stayed close… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“Even sorrow has its silver lining, as the emotion that pours forth reminds us of our capacity to love, and to be… — Rob Kozak Copy Share Image
“You can’t fast-forward through grief; it’s a multi-stage process and step one is being not okay. Step one is suffering.” — Taylor Adams Copy Share Image
I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.” — Jalaluddin Rumi 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
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The best beginnings of our lives May sometimes end in sorrow But even on our darkest days The sun will shine tomorrow.... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“It makes the other one more precious and also not enough. We have to try to fill not only our own boots… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
There are moments when the grief comes bubbling up. The first time I saw Chris's chair empty, that was really hard. And… — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
“You became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
“He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Fairness demanded that grief should find succor, that wounds should heal, insult and confusion find recompense and certainty, that every living person… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A memory of her father flitted through her consciousness. The time he played a slow, melodic tune on the saxophone in the… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“It feels weird, being out in the real world again. Around people just living their lives like normal. Their presence is oppressive.… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind.… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As time passes, things change everyday But wounds, wounds heal But scars still remain the same But tomorrow today's gone down in… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure? — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Why do they say ghosts are cold? Mine are warm, a breath dampening your cheek, a voice when you thought you were… — Julie Buntin Copy Share Image
“God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Dear refuge of my weary soul, On thee, when sorrows rise, On thee, when waves of trouble roll, My fainting hope relies.” — Anne Steele 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
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. — Bible Copy Share Image
“It struck Marra, watching, as an extravagance of grief. Someone wanted the world to know how sad he could afford to be.” — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
“We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.” — Ross Lockridge Jr Copy Share Image
Without the experience of trouble, calamity, grief,and adversity, you would not have courage, strength, joy, and patience. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image