“We do not have control over many things in life and death but we do have control over the meaning we give… — Nathalie Himmelrich Copy Share Image
“Music is joy. Music is sorrow. Music is celebration. Music is suffering. Whatever you are feeling... music is.” — Angelique La Fon-Cox Copy Share Image
“I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don’t want you to think of… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
The worst thing a woman can do is go back to the same person that has been causing them nothing but pain… — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
“The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your… — Jack Ketchum Copy Share Image
Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Be my love, Be my life Be my happiness, Be my wife Be my sadness, Be my tear Be my sorrow, Be… — John Lee Delan Copy Share Image
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed ,… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“Hope, wish, dream, need. Heartbreak, loss, pain, grief. Which was bigger, which was stronger? Love was stronger, but was there enough love… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We needn’t feel forced or pushed to move on before we’re ready. Letting go of the way we hoped things would be… — Robin L. Smith Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that I was so sad I felt as if I might be happy, or in love, simply… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It felt possible--though I know this is absurd--that the use of my own body, the only thing I really owned, had somehow… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
“My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
No sorrows to depress you, only shadows to surround you, God himself to bless you. Happy Birthday! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't' believe it's grief I don't believe it's susan or the other girls I breed. — Beenie Man Copy Share Image
Greif can be a burden,but also and anchor.You get used to the weight,the way it holds you down. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“And somewhere inside me I felt an awful feeling that something in my life was coming quietly to an end.” — Hitomi Kanehara Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
