After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths.… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
“If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound. For the piercing cold of grief had caught Me in the doleful dread and bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There… — Tokugawa Iehiro Copy Share Image
“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet now, having held in grief and resentment, and evaded thinking too much about the episode that changed my life with the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I know that you’re sad right now. Grieve, but don’t hold onto it. Grief smothers out life. Let it go. Remember me… — Kim Holden Copy Share Image
“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Sussex said Byron’s loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn’t want to lose his loss. Loss… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Which ensures that life gets lived in miniature. In lieu of the large feelings—sorrow, fury, joy—I had their junior counterparts—anxiety, irritation, excitement.… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are… — A.W. Streane Copy Share Image
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the… — Paula Wall Copy Share Image
It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“She's breaking inside, the fragile pieces coming away with the water as it pours down on her. Her sorrow is so tangible,… — Ker Dukey Copy Share Image
“And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever,… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth –… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“Grief isn't something you can finish; it isn't something with a beginning and an end. Grief is something you absorb, something you… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“I can't promise to be calm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea... If my heart's going to break, let… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
