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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“On the way home I thought: How strange. I didn't even mention my breakdown today. Perhaps the period of mourning is over.… — Ellen Wolfe Copy Share Image
“In Louisiana, one of the first stages of grief is eating your weight in Popeyes fried chicken. The second stage is doing… — Ken Wheaton Copy Share Image
The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“You haven't lost Iraki, you know. I don't know if it helps to say that. I lost a friend once myself, and… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
“Okay. Well. Here’s a real question. How long do you think it takes to get over someone dying? Someone you really loved,… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger,… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Without warning, all the tears I’ve been holding back are pouring out of me, hot and fast . . . It’s like… — Natalie C. Anderson Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She laughed a bit at the simple beauty of it all - the white paper, the elegant arc, the soft green grass;… — Peter Carnavas Copy Share Image
“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Feeling sorrow is fine, he says. It's right. But you need to use those feelings, channel them into action. Just as you… — Moira Young Copy Share Image
“All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She shoved open her car door and moved to get out. Instead she dropped her head to the steering wheel. She tried… — Ann Wertz Garvin Copy Share Image
“Because I was alone, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning…My emotions were similarly amplified: the highs were higher; the periods of… — Jon Krakaur Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns,… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
“No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
“Grief wasn't a feeling. It was a thing that visited. It was a weight, a lead wall, and it pressed on her… — Meg Gardiner Copy Share Image
Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“unscathed. As a victim, you might be taken to the point of not wanting to live anymore due to the loss of… — Steve Craig Copy Share Image
“We can be so heavily invested in our tales of sorrow and woe that we have no clue how much repeating that… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
I think grief teaches us a lot. Once you've really experienced grief for the first time, everything kicks into perspective. You stop… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
