“happiness is so much sweeter to enjoy and the sorrow is so much easier to bear when you have friends to share… — Marie Astor Copy Share Image
“From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear. If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive. And, maybe, this repetition can become a chant inside a healing ceremony.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I write what I love. I will not stop – even when my hand hurts…. …. because I cannot stop – even… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“Whatever he goes through, I feel. Whatever I go through, he feels. It’s what happens when two people become one: they no… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us,… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
“But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
“Life is filled with either problems or possibilities. When you look at a problem, but see opportunity instead, you become a powerful… — The Angel Affect Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
“Away There is no sorrow Time heals never; No loss, betrayal, Beyond repair. Balm for the soul, then, Though grave shall sever… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief,… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As I dream I miss the breathe of your soul on my face. The deepest thoughts of you floods my eyes with… — Esper Copy Share Image
“They were happy, or at least as happy as a family can be when it’s burdened by a grief too large to… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on… — Euripides Copy Share Image
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“I took my disappointment and crushed it into a tiny weight to join all the other sorrows in the corners of my… — L.C. Hibbett Copy Share Image
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“life is not worth living, and there is no limit to our sorrows, if we indulge our fears to the greatest possible… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And… — George Wither Copy Share Image
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
