“The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“But even of him I can think of with sorrow, now at this moment. Those times, those people...have gone. How can there… — Richard Llewellyn 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
When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as… — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that we can be whole without that person or thing… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“The description of shock and grief hot so close to home: "but sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“At Abraham's burial, his two most prominent sons, rivals since before they were born, estranged since childhood, scions of rival nations, come… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way, / But to act, that each to-morrow / Find us farther than today.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Grief is a process to go through. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
So tell me when my sorrows over, you're the reason why I'm closed. Tell me when you hear me falling. There's a… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
“Healing from grief is about finding a new dimension to an old relationship. The person you love, the place you lived, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“from HOUSEKEEPING, by Marilynne Robinson: There is remembrance, and communion, altogether human and unhallowed. For families will not be broken. Curse and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Holding the space doesn’t mean swaddling the family immobile in their grief. It also means giving them meaningful tasks. Using chopsticks to… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“Everything has its price: sorrow for happiness; birth for love; death for birth.” — Mikhail Shishkin Copy Share Image
“We need to talk about the hierarchy of grief. You hear it all the time—no grief is worse than any other. I… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind—they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise… — A. M. Hudson Copy Share Image
From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of… — Azim Khamisa Copy Share Image
But that a joy past joy calls out on me, It were a grief, so brief to partwith thee. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“... People like to know what they are getting ahead of time. Thus, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, F.W. Woolworth: store-brands maintained and visible across… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
