“Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?” — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and… — Joy Page Copy Share Image
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.” — Aliki Copy Share Image
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep?… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“…included in this grief were the hidden rooms of his life. He told me that hurt was bad enough and that I… — bitter in the mouth Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“Wolverine and Spider-Man on depression: --Wanna know why it's called "depression"? Because it IS depressing... A death isn't like losing a job… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“And so we sat there in the sickening sillage of the truth, neither of us angry, or upset, just muddling through this… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“You have broken my heart. Just as well. Now I am learning to rise above all that, learning the thin life, waking… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.” — Tessa Gratton Copy Share Image
Worry does not empty tomorrow of it's sorrow; it empties today of it's strength. -Corrie Ten Bloom- — Corrie Ten Bloom Copy Share Image
When a person can find sorrow behind ur smile, words behind ur silence, love behind ur anger; u can believe that person… — Norden Copy Share Image
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Mad. Sad. Bad. Glad. Those were the “check-in” words Dr. Nerves recommended to help me identify if I was feeling anger, grief, shame,… — Renee Shafransky Copy Share Image
My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they… — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
“I had lost my connection with the universal energy and gained in its place precognition, visions, and a healing gift I could… — Deborah Blake Copy Share Image
“So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. Takumi” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This past year I grew up to know hunger, grief, darkness, fear. I began to understand how lonely you can feel even… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
