Pain makes you stronger. Tears makes you braver. Heartbreaks makes you wiser. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.” — Nicholas Rowe Copy Share Image
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away by the beautiful blue sky.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“The aftermath of someone’s death is vertiginous, a murky, shimmering mass; to look at it head-on is to see only the fog… — Nicole Rudick Copy Share Image
“the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“I was crazy with grief and loneliness, and most of all, with intense, overwhelming guilt that burned through every cell of my… — Nancy S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“If all I can feel is the very fraying edge of their grief, then I do not want to think how dark… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss. The only… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one! Tell me, whose voice proclaims Things true and sad, Naming by all their old, unhappy names, What… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“Time doesn't heal. It's what you do with the time. Healing is possible when we choose to take responsibility when we choose… — Edith Egar Copy Share Image
“What I keep thinking about is that... it’s a long time ahead of me without her. My whole 20s. And 30s. And… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy]… — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image
“Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.” — Helen Maryles Shankman Copy Share Image
The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“This initial numbness and denial is shock and it is a gift. Shock is a grace period. It gives a woman time… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard. — Nadine Coyle Copy Share Image
“It felt so weird, to be on the other side, where you were the one expected to offer condolences, not receive them.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Even if you’re not happy”—here, she indicated my brother with her eyes—“even when you’re having your worst day you live your life… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You break my heart, you left me, you almost take my pride, I cry for you, you made me see many thing… — JUNIORJK Copy Share Image
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