We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“My grief has burrowed into me like a dark thing that eats away at my life.” — Morgan Rhodes Copy Share Image
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully, survivors must bring all of… — Harold Ivan Smith Copy Share Image
“If you never go through the grief, you’ll never arrive at the growth.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“September 25 Why must I go about mourning? (Psalm 42:9) Dear believer, can you answer the above question? Can you find any… — L.B.E. Cowman Copy Share Image
“A valley full of genuine suffering, and of joys that often turn out to be false, and so incredibly tumultuous that it… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it won't be memory because it won't know what it remembers so when she… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“You know, some people say grief is like an ocean,” I said. “I think that’s true. It’s deep and dark and bigger… — Brenda Rothert Copy Share Image
The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
