I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow. — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had… — David Toop Copy Share Image
“People come and go from our lives all the time. It's not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making… — Sue Fitzmaurice Copy Share Image
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
“The grief doesn't go away, ... "But you...get used to it, you know? It's like carrying a heavy stone, one that's really… — Rachel Neumeier Copy Share Image
“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close… — Nick Trout Copy Share Image
The very second I saw her, My heart was hers. Her first words to me, My Eric As she giggled. She that… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“The house cleared, I shut myself in, fastened the bolt that none might intrude, and proceeded—not to weep, not to mourn, I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“What sorrow is like to the sorrow of one who is alone? Once I dwelt in the company of the king I… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a… — Bao Ninh Copy Share Image
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“I am convinced it is, then our churches are filled with believers who are hurting, to one degree or another, whether visible… — Glenn Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“... Now I'll close my eyes with all my strength and fly away singing my baby girl's favorite song.” — John Zea Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...” — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Grief is not meant to be the soul's final destination; rather a resting place for the heart as we emerge onto the… — Karen A Anderson Copy Share Image
“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
