“All too often we learn what we should have done by doing the opposite. Then we reap naught but sorrow.” — Susan Mayse Copy Share Image
A fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals. And if, when it happens to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried "Crucify him!… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a… — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Copy Share Image
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“ This is life. Learning to love through loss. Seeking warm pockets in the bitter cold. Finding the worth of a smile… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Time does not heal all wounds. If it did, there would be no unresolved grief and no hurt from long ago that… — Susan J. Elliott Copy Share Image
Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than… — Kristen Hannah Copy Share Image
“No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is.” — Amritanandamayi 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
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall 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
“Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back? Why am I… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And no one in a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Burst the Anguish Within! Allow it to pierce every nerve deep in your skin.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Havin loved enough and lost enough, I'm no longer searching, just opening, no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Healing trauma involves tears. The tears release our pain. The tears are part of our recovery. My friend, please let your tears… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
More often than not, we end up sharing our joys with people we love and grief with the people who love us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image