“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
When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
“I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Yet an anxiety disorder is simply an experience that a person moves through, just like a period of grief or sadness. Would… — Barry McDonagh Copy Share Image
“After he died, there was a deep calm to his face; he seemed a kind of unfathomable, still well which opened on… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a… — Karen Ann Hopkins Copy Share Image
“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“—And yet, he was thinking all over again, and all over again as for the first time, how he had suffered, suffered,… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“My sensitive soul was no longer held down by heavy chains of duty and distraction -- it would now (I had theorized)… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations And when Tragedy happens… — Sonny Cele Copy Share Image
Breaking News! Breaking News!!Breaking News!!! There's another plane crash and nobody survived. The plane was carrying all your Problems, Shame, disappointment, discouragement,… — Newlove Copy Share Image
“Right you guessed the rising morrow And scorned to tread the mire you must: Dust's your wages, son of sorrow, But men… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits,… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“This calm which I had just enjoyed was the first apparition of that great intermittent force which was to wage war in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation. I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even though I'm in mourning, I feel an incredible sense of achievement. I can hardly believe I have finally written the ending… — J K Rowling Copy Share Image
You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
