“I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“When someone dies they get very cold and very still. That probably sounds obvious, but when it’s your mother it doesn’t feel… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“Precious to the Lord are the death of His saints." DEATH IS NOT FINAL. God has set eternity in the hearts of… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly. One day you are just a member. It is… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“When Dad was in the middle of a description of the hotel’s laundry facility, I interrupted. “Why haven’t you told me today,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“In Judaism, it is taught that there are three stages of grief to be endured. First there is weeping, for we all… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now,… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Discovering there is a word for what I've always felt does help ease the sorrow some, but only in the way that… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
Never look back,but never forget.Always forgive,never regret.Appreciate what you have today,'cause it might be gone tomorrow and you will be filled with… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“The sounds of a man crying is a piteous noise, almost worse than an infant's cry. Babies are either hungry, sick or… — Samantha Hayes Copy Share Image
“If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a stapler. And a box… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My wife at home. She didn't have a pregnant belly anymore, nobody to cling to, no shoulder to cry on, no one… — Marquise Goodwin Copy Share Image
“There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed… — Kurban Said Copy Share Image
“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Once, I’d been so afraid you would forget me. Now I knew you wouldn’t, but it didn’t make me feel any better.… — Nicola Maye Goldberg 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! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood… — Unica Zürn Copy Share Image
“And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile… — Jennifer Ryan Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
