“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back.… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
Behind your smile, I know there are sorrows. Behind your laughters, I know there are tears. But I want you 2 know… — Se7en Copy Share Image
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that we can be whole without that person or thing… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“But the place where we're most broken, most empty of ourselves... is the place where we can be filled in a way… — Laurie Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered.… — Rachel L. Schade Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands… — Natalie Valdes Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
My Heart, Back where it belongs, Where it is adored, Respected, Appreciated. My Mind, Total Chaos, Perfect Clarity. I see the truth,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon… — Alma P Burton Copy Share Image
“And when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. They… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that… — Shelley Ramsey Grief A Mama's Unwanted Journey Copy Share Image
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
In life, grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it no shortcuts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you… — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
“Dear refuge of my weary soul, On thee, when sorrows rise, On thee, when waves of trouble roll, My fainting hope relies.” — Anne Steele Copy Share Image
“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ” — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If I didn't drain the sorrow, you would have made me suffer a life of no love anyway. — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
