The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.” — Lisa Samson Copy Share Image
“Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.” — Bernice McFadden Copy Share Image
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
“The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine… — Gibran Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. This year for the first time since I was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The greatest act of loving another person is letting go and wishing for their happiness and well being regardless of your sorrow… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
“…what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.” — Leslie A. Gordon Copy Share Image
“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between love and pain was the feeling of a family that was missing one of its founding members.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
