“She held his hand tightly, as the life support system was removed. Her stomach contracted, she felt like she was being squeezed… — Kirthi Jayakumar Copy Share Image
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Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A memory that costs you something," he said aloud, almost to himself. "One that hurts to remember. That makes you regret what… — Daria Lavelle Copy Share Image
“The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she wondered if it wouldn't have been better to let herself experience it [the grief] in the beginning - like a… — Katie Ganshert Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast.… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I had started trying—it for the first time, really—it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“He gives her a lump of grief that has hardened at the bottom of the canvas pocket at his waist. He gives… — Tina May Hall Copy Share Image
When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
“An endless scream pierced the frigid night air and shook the world with its rage and sorrow. The aged stone and brick… — Ava Zavora Copy Share Image
“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source;… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined.… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we… — Merrill J. Bateman Copy Share Image
“There are sorrows, that is true.' Arconn said thoughtfully. 'We lose those who are close to us, and we are sad when… — M. L. Forman Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t move. I couldn’t feel and I was numb. I sat there until it was dark. I could see shadows and… — M. Robinson Copy Share Image
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
Life's like a piano. The pleasures are the white keys and the sorrows are the black keys. In the end, they work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along… — William Styron Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes she wondered if it wouldn't have been better to let herself experience it [the grief] in the beginning - like a Band-Aid torn off quickly. A burst of intense pain that stung and went away. That had to be better than this slow peel of heartache she experienced now. Her rush to forget had…” quote by Katie Ganshert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/125/katie-ganshert-32292_grief_sometimes-she-wondered-if-it-wouldn-t-ha_540898.jpg)
