“... being with people who don't understand is worse than being alone with her grief.” — Kerry Cohen Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have… — Scott Niedermayer Copy Share Image
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sorry for her loss. And he had hugged her. Like he knew what she was holding inside, this secret grief that had… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“2.15 GRIEF All the grief of every man, Remove himself – he only can, For this grief that be within, Be caused… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
“Then my tears come blinding, and he lead me by the arm. I stumble in the elevator, thinking of that moon rain.… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Most kids grow sullen and angry when they’re working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I'm just a psycho myself. I loved playing Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker], taking on [a character] who's completely unhinged. I saw… — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
“I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Before the New York Times starts running "Portraits in Grief" of former Enron employees, it's worth remembering that even after the collapse,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Grief is like cancer. It ebbs and flows within you. Then, it changes and transforms you. Forever. Grief. Cancer. Both force you… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
Slowly falling down the hole Feverishly flailing, no place to hold. Consumed by darkness, where did she go? Sadness has its hold… — Kaile Stewart Copy Share Image
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Romance is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of eucatastrophe,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I have a silent sorrow here; A grief Ill neer impart; It breathes no sigh, it sheds not tear, But it consumes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. — Jeanie Cameron Copy Share Image
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“Their grief wasn't his to bear, he knew. But it was inside him all the same, like a secret entrusted to a… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“I sat there thinking this had to be the pits. I was afraid that I had become fed up with life, that… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Someone here died, I realize. Someone these people loved and cared for. I’m not the only person in the world tangled up… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with… — Theresa Smith Copy Share Image
“Grief is a hard mistress to have, Rome. She eventually wants all you have to give her.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image