“I can hear Isaac's smile. It softens his words, but they have a different meaning now. Between his mouth and my ears,… — Will Kostakis Copy Share Image
“and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“At the precipice of death, more often than not, we think of the ones we lov, the friendships we are about to… — Van Heerling Copy Share Image
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments ,… — Torkom Saraydarian Copy Share Image
“When people mentioned it to me, they thought they were talking about some casual relative of mine. For most people that's what… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to be ashamed of yourself. Presumptuous and stupid. I've made myself sick with shame, because I could feel so strongly… — Ebba Haslund Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. It is easy to sense and embrace meaning when life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
When a loved one has passed, you feel as if your heart crashed. When a dear friend has left the shore, all… — Brooke T Ryman Copy Share Image
“She was carrying with her, the cold. She was holding on to that icy stone of grief. It had been there all… — Kali Wallace Copy Share Image
“For as long as it takes for the sorrow and pain to transfer into acceptance. I’ll stay here. With you. By your… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“Every human grief you will ever experience has been experienced by humans living and humans yet to come. There is no readiness… — Claire North Copy Share Image
I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage,… — Margo Price Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
“When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
But the thing about grief is that it doesnt have a timescale. So I can sit here today and say to you… — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it… — Beth Ann Fennelly Copy Share Image
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
“You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you… — P.A. Minyard Copy Share Image
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
