“Food has power. Nonna knew that. Ma did too. I know it now. And though it can't save me, it might help… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“So I pushed the bitterness down, into the black pit of my stomach along with my regret and my grief and my… — R.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out...though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love.” — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“We bleed our sorrows dry on the chance that laughter will save what is left of our dignity” — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
“What pays for all this?" "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Depression, contrary to what we normally believe, is not sadness but an inability to fully feel sadness. Depression is sorrow denied.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“I knew from experience there isn't anything anyone can really say to help you through your grief. You just have to let… — Koethi Zan Copy Share Image
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Only then did I allow myself to cry. I hoped against hope that no one could hear me. Something ended that night,… — Mariam Petrosyan Copy Share Image
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“I hear the word in the hall over and over again. Suicide. Suicide. Suicide. Did he or didn’t he? Everyone’s got a… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“The wave of pure outrage blindsided me. I shouldn't be here, I thought. This is utterly fucked up. I should have been… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I… — Alexandra Latos Copy Share Image
“ Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if… — Jenna Brooks Copy Share Image
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!❤” — Timothy Pina 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
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“One of heartbreak's chief qualities seemed to be its ability to distort time and distances.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Mad – empty – crazy – lost – dying... I was all of these things and nothing as well, because even though… — Melanie Cusick-Jones Copy Share Image
“Life online is a whiplash between deep sorrow, unexpected joy, cheap laughs, profound thoughts, and dumb memes.” — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
“...the best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.” — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“she sat rocking his head back and forth, back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness.” — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“The die cast, I really was living out of a suitcase, feeling as though I had fallen off the grid.” — Grace G. Payge Copy Share Image
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“Your pets will never judge you for helping them leave a body that has failed them. To them it is the ultimate… — Karen A Anderson Copy Share Image
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“We have hugged each other maybe three or four times - on birthdays,very likely, and clumsily. We have never hugged in moments… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
![“His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice…” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/858/aberjhani-1814_achieve_his-ben-okri-s-work-poses-very-serious-q_3057967.jpg)
