“And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“I wasn't feeling grief: that hellish chest-crammed agony you feel - but some portion of my brain activated by the memory decided… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife,… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“I miss you with the very edge of my skin. It winces in absence, a giant muscle contracting.” — Valentina Cano Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Do you want to hurt yourself?' 'No. I'm trying to get a grip. Have a more normal life.' Scribble, scribble. 'The number… — Shannon Delany Copy Share Image
“I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. — Richard Matheson 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
“ This lake is alive. Kicking. Breathing. Frothing. I envision it's as angry as I am. As resolved to its fate as… — S.A. McAuley Copy Share Image
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“Here, supposing that neither Harry Perkins nor the servants nor some outsider called ‘X’ had killed Stephen Anthony, was a murderer. He… — Richard Lockridge Copy Share Image
“He wanted to cry out, longed to scream, to howl his misery to the heavens. But he couldn’t even manage a whimper.… — John Heffernan Copy Share Image
I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into… — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde 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
“Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family.… — John Corey Whaley 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 had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits,… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Before I could catch it, my heart slammed straight down to my feet, leaving me with a massive hole in my chest.… — Jenna Evans Welch Copy Share Image
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? — William Blake Copy Share Image
“God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Don’t let grief be the end of your story. Let it be the beginning of the bridge you build, step by step,… — Christina Stiverson Copy Share Image
“The first thing to know is that grief is not a straight line. It doesn’t happen in “stages,” as is commonly thought;… — Susan J. Elliott Copy Share Image
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment ofdespair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image