“You can tear the petal, but it will still release the scent. Grief can shred the heart, but it will still sing… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
This silence speaks a million words Words of comfort so shallow How I wish even for one tear But for my heart… — Swallow The Sun Copy Share Image
“Grief was an ocean. We were sitting in the middle of it on makeshift life rafts, never knowing if we’d make it… — Lilliana Anderson Copy Share Image
“Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun 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
“Dry your eyes mate, I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts, but you’ve got to walk… — Mike Skinner Copy Share Image
“Grief isn’t an illness though, is it?’ Anna’s face crumples. ‘It’s not as if you get better , like you do with… — Louise Jensen Copy Share Image
“Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly… — Bridges McCall Copy Share Image
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No matter how much sorrow or happiness can distort our feelings, we should keep on striving towards our goals, because feelings come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past redemptions to find God's… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“You cannot die from grief, though it feels like you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes you chest aches… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Nay, the cure of my sorrow must come from gushing tears. Yet, is there any hope that this desolation can bring me… — Imru al-Qays Copy Share Image
Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
“There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.” — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“Life and death, joy and sorrow, gain and loss; These dualities cannot be avoided. Learn to accept what you cannot change.” — Ramayana (book 2 Copy Share Image
“- even in the midst of grief the mind grapples with a hundred impressions: a pain below the heart, an odor on… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“we were born for sorrow we were born for pain we were born for loss but we were also born to love… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
“He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Tempestuous in her sorrow, the wind unrestrained squalls, as from charcoal clouds above, tears from heaven begin to fall.” — Michelle Connor Copy Share Image
“Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing… — Charles Bracelen Flood Copy Share Image
“Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you -… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
“As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“She knows by now that grief is about endurance, understanding over and over that the person you loved is not coming back.” — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
