Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.” — Robert E. Neale Copy Share Image
But that a joy past joy calls out on me, It were a grief, so brief to partwith thee. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A life that is burdened with expectation will never be fruitful.It culminates in sorrow & disappointment. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
“With due deference to an esteemed lyrical authority one may safely say that a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is anticipating unhappier things.” — Saki Copy Share Image
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“This is what language is: a habitual grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“There’s no way around grief. You have to go through it. You have to cry it out of your body, then wade… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“If one’s husband had been married before and widowed—a fairly common condition—and a close relative of his first wife’s died, the second… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Weeping is the emotion of middle age. Once you get to your forties, no joy fails to remind you of its opposite,… — Scott Huler Copy Share Image
No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“I lay in my bed a few minutes later, resigned as the pain finally made its appearance. It was a crippling thing,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Why don't you see me? Why don't you hear me? Why don't you feel me? Why won't you talk to me? Why… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle for bread; they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I became a student of my own depressed experience, trying to unthread its causes. What was the root of all this despair?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think we all need to learn to live the lives we've got and not mourn the ones we don't. — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” — Marie Force Copy Share Image
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
“The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Going through heartbreak can feel like being underwater when you need to breathe. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed. — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. — Horace Copy Share Image
“If wars were declared by love, there would be no tears of sorrow, only tears of joy.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got. — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
