Although its difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you ever see a man trying to drown his sorrows, kindly remind him that his sorrows can swim.” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Grief taught me that healing is not about one big moment of clarity. It is about tiny practices, repeated daily, until they… — Christina Stiverson Copy Share Image
Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Rachael could see the lavender fields from where they sat at the kitchen table. They stretched in a purple haze over the… — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“My heart broke when he died, split in half and fell down into my stomach or somewhere deep and muddy, and I'm… — Jen Violi Copy Share Image
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“And so all of these thoughts overwhelmed me when I woke from my hiding place in an alley the next morning, having… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are, life is desperately hard sometimes. People we love die, and the longer we live, the more we… — Allyson Dinneen Copy Share Image
I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People do not like the tragic side of life. They deny pain and suffering as a facet of life. Even when someone… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn't appreciated… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“many people who suffer difficult losses exhibit a natural resilience. They hurt deeply, but the hurt passes, and relatively soon after the… — George A. Bonanno Copy Share Image
“That was the problem, she no longer knew what she wanted. (Shrouded in grief and lost dreams, her joy had vanished, the… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.” — Sunshine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Parker soon became familiar with the one certainty of sorrow, that ultimately loneliness trumps logic.” — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness." — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows. — Gary Player Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
“They were happy, or at least as happy as a family can be when it’s burdened by a grief too large to… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.” — Connilyn Cossette Copy Share Image
These tears that I cry may not mean nothing to anyone anymore but I still manage to over come all those sad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image