Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“But the flames did die down, perhaps from lack, perhaps from excess of fuel. Little by little, love was quenched by absence,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Loss of any sort should stir up emotion; if it doesn’t, it’s because we’ve trained ourselves to be numb. We’ve bought into… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my… — John Balkh Copy Share Image
When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning… — Michael Chiklis 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
At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
“Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. — Greg Bear 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
“I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes; I wonder if It weighs like Mine, Or has an Easier size.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?" I ate another piece of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
“Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Any second... now? No. I am a 'mourning person'. Not because anybody close to me has recently passed away, but because I… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
“I always thought of grief as a blow that took everything out of you. And it is like that. But it stays,… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
We must remind ourselves at times that healing grief, guilt, severe wounds, and tattered relationships take time to heal and we need… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest… — Paulette Alden Copy Share Image
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“There’s only ever been one person I’ve looked at and thought… ‘I could quite easily spend the entire rest of my life… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Pulling away, I realized I had no place to go and nothing I wanted to do except satisfy my curiosity about a… — James Ellroy 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
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
