“... Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I shall take your sorrows and give you my joys. Don't ever leave me, I can't live without you. You are dearer… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The pains in my heart don't go away these days. The heartaches are chronic; they layer on top of each other from… — Eva Lesko Natiello Copy Share Image
“she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people’s sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without… — Tamar Cohen Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Never Doubt Yourself, Everything Happens for a Reason When we look back on our lives and think honestly about everything we have… — Jan Jansen Easy Branches Copy Share Image
“After a breakup, you may also feel physically and mentally incapacitated in some way. You have trouble sleeping, or you sleep too… — Susan J. Elliott Copy Share Image
“Pain doesn’t really go away because someone kisses it better. Sadness doesn’t recede because a person posts an inspiring quote on your… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
“Erica's imminent departure changed us. The knowledge that we would soon be separated made us both more indulgent, relieving us of a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Drowning in a darkness Of deep despair Believing the lies I hear And seeing truths not there See the rays of sunlight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The hurt means you're alive. It means your body is reacting and willing to fight - both to fight back and fight… — Frank Page Copy Share Image
I come in her's life, I made her's happiness and grow love. One day, I become a screw up and destroyed her's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make… — Stephanie Roberts Copy Share Image
“To remember sometimes is a great sorrow, but when the remembering has been done, there comes afterwards a very curious peacefulness. Because… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am not the first nor the last one to mourn, but this is my way of mourning. It’s my way to… — Bernard Jan Copy Share Image
Life starts with tears and goes on for years, with tears that don't fall but only burn in your eyes. And ulimately… — Vivaciousvicky Copy Share Image
It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“And, for her father, it seemed as if it were a home-like, comfortable thought to him, that her mother had one of… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If it was in Grief, it was philosophy, if in joy, it was madness. Just the way a philandering flame could be… — Kirthi Jayakumar Copy Share Image
Laugh so hard that even sorrow smiles at you. Fight so strong that fate even admits defeat. Love so true that hatred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice," he told me, "You are expected to sacrifice because… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or… — Horace Copy Share Image
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity...I finally get it after… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I cried then, holding nothing back. For empty years, yearning for the touch of a hand. Hollow years, lying beside a man… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image