“Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.” — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Death does not discriminate; Some die old, some at 8. So remember during all your grief, our visit here is very brief. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are able to remove someone's sorrow even for a second , you recieve Life's blessings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! There's not a sob in my chest. Dry hearted Peer Gynt I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth –… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I can't promise to be calm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea... If my heart's going to break, let… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I used to cry to the stars in the sky and begged them to have mercy on me cause I longed for… — Magdalena Ganowska Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how well you are doing,” John complimented me just a few minutes after he mentioned the Christmas card.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a… — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“If only I could bear all your sorrows for you! . . . Ah! you were so happy when you were little… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
Ain't no shame in holding on to grief, as long as you make room for other things too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.” — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Something writhed inside me and for a moment I was back in those long dark days when my world was so small… — Jodi Taylor Copy Share Image
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“And man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Turns out grief not only morphs time, but space too. Somehow increases the distance between you and other people.” — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness) — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
![“I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo in July of 2012. It helped me as it has millions of people with the trauma and grief associated with the great personal loss of a loved one." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” quote by R. Alan Woods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/930/r-alan-woods-1455_books_i-was-led-to-read-the-shack-by-wm-paul-y_2013250.jpg)
![“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. The young king [crown prince Henry, †1183] and the count of Britanny [prince…” quote by Eleanor of Aquitaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/015/eleanor-of-aquitaine-52379_death-wish_pitiful-and-pitied-by-no-one-why-have-i_796292.jpg)
