One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. — Ian Hislop 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
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“It's said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one's capacity for great joy. I see it from the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault,… — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
“I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.” — Karen Cecil Smith Copy Share Image
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Once we love, we cannot revoke it,' she said. 'We can only glory in what it brings -- pain as well as… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
“True joy is never the enemy of godly grief. Joy is what trains and equips us to bear it.” — Hannah K. Grieser Copy Share Image
After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to talk… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries."… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Scott is gone. I've had two days with this truth. This truth and me, we're acquainted now, past the shock of our… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
