“I do not know how I got through without breaking down, without my heart bursting from sorrow and shame.” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies,… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.” — Phoolan Devi Copy Share Image
“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Love and loss coincide, I suppose. Love teaches us how to live with, and loss forces us to live without. We love… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark… — John Banville Copy Share Image
You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
Even though I'm in mourning, I feel an incredible sense of achievement. I can hardly believe I have finally written the ending… — J K Rowling Copy Share Image
“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Now that she was gone, he did not know how to stand in this room right. He looked around at the familiar… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life. — Edgar Morin Copy Share Image
Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“On her own, Grace could be effervescent, illuminating the entire room with her intelligence and wit. Around others she seemed to lose… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Grief handed me a heart of iron, and I rusted it with my tears, a muscle not made of flesh, not pumping… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs. — Callimachus Copy Share Image
I discovered on my own that I could cope better with the crippling effects of grief by taking care of myself, eating… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
He filled her life with sorrow. She was no longer his, just something borrowed. Now all he wishes for is one more… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Finding hope after immense grief is like diving down to the Titanic with no scuba gear. — A Eastburn Copy Share Image
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Moja molitva i moja pokora, moj život i moja smrt, sve to pripada Bogu, stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.” — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
“I was adrift, tugged and pulled by the gravity of solitude, a festering hunger driving me like a relentless martinet” — Peter Tieryas Liu Copy Share Image