“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
I just want to go home. See my wife, play with my girls. I just want to matter again. When will this… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises nothing.” — Kate Dicamillo Copy Share Image
“Do not let grief be the only map you carry, lest you lose your way back to happiness.” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“And afterward, I stopped at Red Cloud's grave to pay my respects to the old chief. Some Oglalas had left him tobacco… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; its a shame that… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty.” — Ash Krafton Copy Share Image
“I don't even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Despite of Hatred, Sorrow, Finality and everything that boomerang this bad Day.. Still you wake up! to fight for Life's worth — Mary Ann Belarmino Copy Share Image
“Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“Can a therapist make me not want to get pregnant? Can a therapist undo the trouble with my eggs, my hormones, and… — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Some days you just have to let the tears fall. Whether for joy or sorrow. They do not mean you're weak. They… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“Trap. Horrible trap. At one’s birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?” — Taylor Nadeau Copy Share Image
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Do I matter? Can I, Even now, Especially now, Make a difference? I have struggled with this, All of my days, For… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“I want an intense life. Intense sorrow and intense happiness. Intense loneliness and intense kinship. Intense love and intense hatred. Intense regret… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“His father’s solicitude and sympathy were round him day and night, and this, in the midst of so much toil, pain, grief,… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I often wondered after David’s death: Had they known something then? Did their very souls recognize each other? Did Jacob, closer to… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image