“I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.” — Denise Jaden Copy Share Image
“She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you… — Sophie Swetchine 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
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“When he wasn’t cutting the pitiful figure of a mourning widower, he was being a downright prick.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it.… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“And it is, by the way, from the presence of others that we really derive support in our dark hours of grief,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“The pain in my chest, which I had had since the day I was left on the front porch, eased up. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My heart is broken by the arrow but my head keeps saying to take it slow. There's so much pain and sorrow,… — Daniya Copy Share Image
“Just as sorrow in our own lives causes us to withdraw from everyday life and seek comfort in Christ, she too finds… — Brian Kennelly Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“She is an immense presence in the world. Tragedy and strength have so perfectly coalesced in her, as if one fed off… — Barbara Bode Copy Share Image
“She could always walk somewhere without him. Of course this somewhere had to be somewhere "safe." She could walk to her office.… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
“I accepted all this counsel politely, with a glassy smile and a glaring sense of unreality. Many adults seemed to interpret this… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When people mentioned it to me, they thought they were talking about some casual relative of mine. For most people that's what… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to be ashamed of yourself. Presumptuous and stupid. I've made myself sick with shame, because I could feel so strongly… — Ebba Haslund Copy Share Image
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“I felt myself shrink to a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. I felt… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Where there is grief there is no space for new love. For in fact grief is in itself a love that is… — Paraschiva Florescu Copy Share Image
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth I have of… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
“We are all children of a God who knows us, loves us, and is there for us, especially in our sorrow and… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a well: you can never truly leave it but the walls grow wider and wider until one day you… — M.A. Kuzniar Copy Share Image
“May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.” — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.” — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
