“Who were these people? Where was all this joy, and where does joy go when it leaves your family? Does it go… — Crystal Chan Copy Share Image
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Some truths only tragedy can teach. The first one I learned is that when people acknowledge your pain, they want your pain… — Tracy Deonn Copy Share Image
“And he had begun to feel then what he was feeling now: the complex and awful mental and physical interaction that is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls. These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There are a lot of different ways to grieve. Just because a person is not crying or a person is functioning does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to… — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“We communed together a moment, one with the other—I was deeply fascinated. At our first encounter I am sure I had a… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
“Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“They were talking about things that didn’t matter a fig, not with the huge yawning grief burning a hole in his chest… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“I guess even at nine I had a serious lack of spiritual purity, for my wounds soured within two days, and for… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“His eyes looked sad and cautious. I recognized the grief, but there seemed to be more to it, a depth beyond what… — Tyra Lynn Copy Share Image
Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Someday I will pick up shells of every colour And probably even rob the sea of its wonder Yet I won't find… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“They had decided to renovate their way out of the grief. Neither of them was sure it was a good plan, but… — Camilla Läckberg Copy Share Image
I have privately met with victims of the former Unification Church, and directly heard about their horrifying experiences. As a politician, I… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
You can't go to Amazon and order a book on how you handle grief. There's books on it, sure. But there's no… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up… — Koji Suzuki Copy Share Image
“There is freedom in mourning as long as we are surrendering ourselves to be changed into the image of Christ in the… — Natasha Metzler Copy Share Image
The world is filled with trial and hardship. Its easy to become more worried and anxious every day as you face relationship… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a… — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
