“Sometimes we lose pieces of who we are in times of great sorrow and distress. And then we have to find a… — Tracy Holczer Copy Share Image
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a… — Clifford Odets Copy Share Image
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
Everything is happening as part of life.If we are stuck up with happiness and sorrows, we will be unable to face the… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you… — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The expectation that we “get over” or “move on” from a profound loss or crisis is not only unrealistic, but it may… — Ramon Presson Copy Share Image
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Having some form of structure to process and manage grief collectively surely helps: as someone put it to me, grief is like… — Owen Jones 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
“My best advice to myself was to act like I’d been there before. I was in way over my head, and I… — Michael Deeze Copy Share Image
“In the lift up to Larry's apartment on the sixth floor he [Lacke] started to cry. Not quietly, no; he wailed like… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it… — Clark Davis Love Comes Softly Copy Share Image
During the mourning period after my father passed, his friends and colleagues were saying there was no way the business would survive.… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
“My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Sorrow comes from fear, fear comes from insecurity, insecurity comes from psychological obscurity, which is the lack of wisdom.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer. — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; its the endings were unprepared for. — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
“Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“We, the called and faithful and chosen, we will drive away our griefs, and set up our banners of confidence in the… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
In times of trouble, grief, sadness and in times of loneliness their always a helping hand to hold and give u his… — Sheila Poblacion Copy Share Image
“You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.” — Donovan Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this: I have a responsibility I need to fathom. I have a… — Michelle Dicinoski Copy Share Image
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“When a tsunami hits, you know, on the one hand it's complete destruction, and on the other hand now you have this… — Rachel Goldberg-Polin Copy Share Image