“Everyone had a story of grief. Everyone else's was worse than yours.” — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!” — Sherri Bridges Fox Copy Share Image
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really...” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Food has power. Nonna knew that. Ma did too. I know it now. And though it can't save me, it might help… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has,… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“One of heartbreak's chief qualities seemed to be its ability to distort time and distances.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There’s no way around grief. You have to go through it. You have to cry it out of your body, then wade… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“I knew that somehow this loneliness was linked to all my other fears and worries and premonitions and to my sense, that… — Stephen Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Weeping is the emotion of middle age. Once you get to your forties, no joy fails to remind you of its opposite,… — Scott Huler Copy Share Image
Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What I keep thinking about is that... it’s a long time ahead of me without her. My whole 20s. And 30s. And… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“But before that day it felt like at least I had an ally on this boat. Now I have nothing. Well, I… — Emily Skrutskie Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Wolverine and Spider-Man on depression: --Wanna know why it's called "depression"? Because it IS depressing... A death isn't like losing a job… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“And so we sat there in the sickening sillage of the truth, neither of us angry, or upset, just muddling through this… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“You have broken my heart. Just as well. Now I am learning to rise above all that, learning the thin life, waking… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
