The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
“What is hope? Like love, it is hard to define, but easy to recognize, a state of being that compels us to… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can… — Alfred Bunn Copy Share Image
“Time doesn't heal. It's what you do with the time. Healing is possible when we choose to take responsibility when we choose… — Edith Egar Copy Share Image
“When I thought I felt better, grief shot its silver tip arrow at my heart to remind me that it was still… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“Think about it. The selfsame well from which your laughter now rises was once filled with your tears. How else can it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of… — Setterfield Diane Copy Share Image
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
“Freud was fascinated with depression and focused on the issue that we began with—why is it that most of us can have… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Do I matter? Can I, Even now, Especially now, Make a difference? I have struggled with this, All of my days, For… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“He became so gloomy that she asked him, at last, if he was worried about anything. He assured her, instantly, that he… — Margaret Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like employment, active, indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I’m tempted to walk away from this city and this life and this relationship that’s brought me the greatest feelings of joy… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“The pain is too much, the loss too great. There is no more before, and the after is too devastating. There isn’t… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of… — Azim Khamisa Copy Share Image
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home,… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
“Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one… — Linda Hawley Copy Share Image
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
