“Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.” — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak ... Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.” — J.W. Lynne Copy Share Image
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
“He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet now, having held in grief and resentment, and evaded thinking too much about the episode that changed my life with the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“To remember sometimes is a great sorrow, but when the remembering has been done, there comes afterwards a very curious peacefulness. Because… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It’s very difficult to give up on things we can’t control. And that’s what a divorce represents. It represents the ultimate loss… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“But the flames did die down, perhaps from lack, perhaps from excess of fuel. Little by little, love was quenched by absence,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“She wanted to die. She wanted to die. Because then it would be over. All the loss, all the grief, all the… — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
“Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.” — Jackson Lanzing Copy Share Image
“Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.” — Amy Alznauer Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person. — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.” — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end? — André Aciman Copy Share Image
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding. — John Adams Copy Share Image
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works. A” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
A Wise Thought: Never Allow Your Own Sorrow To Absorb You, But Seek Out Other To Console, And You Will Find Consolation. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
