“I knew that he was filled with grief when he finally kissed me one last time in one of the bathroom stalls… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
“Why is crying so pleasurable? I feel clean, absolutely purged after it. As if I had a grief to get over with,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“In a time when error reigns— bleak days the world doth mourn, cries of anguish, great with pain, children of the light… — David Beckett Copy Share Image
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Grief is my shadow, Love is my light, I keep the pain where it belongs, behind me, as I move forward loving… — Vladislas Nikilovic Copy Share Image
“We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Grief is not an identity. What feels so solid and real as a grief reaction (or any other reaction) in any moment… — Sameet M. Kumar Copy Share Image
“I root through your remains, looking for the black box. Nothing left but glossy chunks, a pimp’s platinum tooth clanking inside the… — Erin Belieu Copy Share Image
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Trees do mourn the loss of their leaves. This fall, take a moment to listen to their mourning and observe how easily… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“There’s only ever been one person I’ve looked at and thought… ‘I could quite easily spend the entire rest of my life… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
One can't share happiness if not felt. One can't live happily if happiness is unexpressed. Through life contentment is searched for often… — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
“She wanted to die. She wanted to die. Because then it would be over. All the loss, all the grief, all the… — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“How best to convey that she wasn’t fraught with grief without seeming like a monster? “We’ve reached a point of acceptance with… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
There are a lot of different ways to grieve. Just because a person is not crying or a person is functioning does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For it is when a man sees himself in this unutterable hopelessness that the Holy Spirit reveals unto him the Lord Jesus… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“As I lay in my bed unable to sleep I challenged Him: Pull out another miracle. Send him back. You can do… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“With time, grief has a way of slipping down in the crevices of your heart. It never really leaves; it just makes… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest… — Paulette Alden Copy Share Image
“Never before did I feel so bound by the chains of the soul. Never before was there such pain of ripping my… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
It's always there, it's in your bones, every single piece of grief or loss or happiness or sadness you feel in your… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Deepest love is the biggest sorrow in the world.. Never love a person more then your life it will kill u alot… — Shubham Chhabra Copy Share Image
“Through the silence he could hear the wind moan across a future landscape, sharing Earth’s sorrow, unable to bind up her wounds.” — P.S. Duffy Copy Share Image
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers. — Hozier Copy Share Image
“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.” — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image