Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work… — Pam Ferris Copy Share Image
“we all have more than our share of pains and sorrow. Embarrassments and things that haunt us. From that, no one is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A day without you is never easy... It brings so much pain, So much sorrow... And everyday that passes by without you… — Nerd_Seyed Copy Share Image
Being vulnerable has always been my way of dealing with my grief, from the beginning. Even before I knew I was that… — Natasha Gregson Wagner Copy Share Image
The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
“To give yourself for anything means being a martyr. You could lose everything, even yourself, but if what you gain is worth… — Victoria Charis Matthews Copy Share Image
But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a… — Dally Messenger Copy Share Image
“Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two, which was… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“grief. We do and say strange things—sometimes bizarre things—when we are swallowed up in grief. No one should be hard on us… — R. T. Kendall Copy Share Image
“The key to happiness wasn’t to pretend bruised souls and broken hearts didn’t exist because you couldn’t build something solid on a… — Aimee Nicole Walker Copy Share Image
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Oh, my God,’ she said, between sobs. ‘Oh, my God.’ Olanna reached out often to squeeze her arm. The rawness of Edna’s… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
“I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inside if you, you have the ability to accept that even the most perfect beginnings has the most imperfect endings. The courage… — Julandie Copy Share Image
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You do not have to remain stuck in your grief forever when you realize that your loved ones who have passed continue… — Suzanne Giesemann Copy Share Image
When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
“I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off… — MacDonald George Copy Share Image
“We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything. It was as if I was on top of the… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is both a vaccine and an antidote for grief. Grief may be an inevitable fact of life, but gratitude has the… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Grief is not an identity. What feels so solid and real as a grief reaction (or any other reaction) in any moment… — Sameet M. Kumar Copy Share Image
