“She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears,… — Jaclyn A Wilson Copy Share Image
“Ill is it when good folk die.’ ‘Why, if they were good you need not mourn for them,’ said Skafloc glibly, ‘for… — Poul Anderson 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
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
“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
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
'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
The Grief, is killing me, every single day. And yet, with this exquisite heart, soul, and mind, each day, I bring myself… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“When there is a huge crack in your relationship with someone, you wonder what others do in similar situations. I realize I'm… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
“The grief I’m feeling is heavy and raw, pressing down on me, breaking my chest apart. It hurts to even touch the… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
“One fast more or I'm gone', I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Her voice seemed to loosen something in Greta’s stomach, some knot she’d been holding on to for years, and now the knot… — Jen Beagin Copy Share Image
“Hope Was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men.… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Just so you know, I realize that what happened is not in any way okay, but I think we're going to have… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“Rachel felt the grief grow so wide and deep it felt like a dark fathomless pool she'd never emerge from. Because there… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“I got myself into a tangle. I tied myself in knots. I built and I built–heaven knows I have done that well.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“…included in this grief were the hidden rooms of his life. He told me that hurt was bad enough and that I… — bitter in the mouth Monique Truong Copy Share Image
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live … live.… Wait for me, new, frightened soul.… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness; it is a ministry of presence. These moments remind… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Hope lives. No matter the mistakes we make, no matter our blunders and misunderstandings, no matter the grief and sorrow and loss,… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
“I was out of control, manic, less myself than I’d ever been. Like Eve must have felt after the fall, I reflected… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“Those who have slept with sorrow in their hearts Know all too well how short but sweet The instant of their coming-to… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
