“Grief is by nature the most violent of them all. The ancients tore their hair and rent their clothing to express it.… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Seal the borders of my body to pain, seal my eyes, mouth, belly to any hunger not my own. I rename myself… — Shailja Patel Copy Share Image
“How best to convey that she wasn’t fraught with grief without seeming like a monster? “We’ve reached a point of acceptance with… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Merciful God, comfort and heal all those who suffer in body, mind, or spirit; give them courage and hope in their troubles,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't understand why I feel so alone; This horrid, empty feeling is all I've ever known. With no one in my… — Me Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.” — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
Everything is happening as part of life.If we are stuck up with happiness and sorrows, we will be unable to face the… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice. — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
If your heart doesnt get what it want, it will have an empty space called hollow and sometimes when a hollow come… — Alvin Copy Share Image
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Her broken heart was still beating. How come? Buses were running, buzzing, humming. People were smiling. Birds' chatter and kids' laughter rang… — NZ Kaminsky Copy Share Image
“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth –… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to… — Moses ibn Ezra Copy Share Image
“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and… — Rick Gekoski 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
“It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when… — Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith Copy Share Image
It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“Grief was messy. It didn’t have the elegance of longing, the poetry of heartbreak; its wholeness made it solid, its certainty made… — Lara Williams Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he… — Helmuth Plessner Copy Share Image
“If you have not resolved your grief, it will affect your future relationships including the one you have with yourself. Including the… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic,… — Ruth Graham Copy Share Image
“Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing conspiracy of smiles and… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem… — Silas House Copy Share Image
What do you do, when your Soul Mate dies? What is left? Is it enough to be half? Do I matter now,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
