What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face -… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“What if you wake up one fine morning only to realize that the life you have been living since the last few… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Everyone goes through the ups and downs in life. It's how long we want to dwell in our downs depends on you.… — Raquel Chavez Copy Share Image
“I watch my loved ones weep with sorrow, death's silent torment of no tomorrow. I feel their hearts breaking, I sense their… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I stood upon a chair when I was left alone, and looked into the glass to see how red my eyes were,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And this is more or less all that I had left after the holidays. Nothing really; hopeless confusion, a narrative without a… — Juan Carlos Onetti Copy Share Image
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away… — David Lynch 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 this forest called life, sometimes there are no goodbyes, no proper sendoffs, no wishing for a next time; just the knowledge… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain… — Susan Denning Copy Share Image
“O Lord, Sula,” she cried, “girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.” It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The door slams in response, and I laugh. I'm glad she can laugh. It means she really is coping. I know she’s… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
When we assume that 'normal' people need 'time to heal,' or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“For I knew already that something had taken me from me, and had replaced it with a desperate longing for a time… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Grief was a kind of illness, he maintained, and ran a course as predictable as measles or the common cold. Its fever… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
“I didn’t love you to seek revenge. I didn’t love you out of loneliness or unhappiness. I didn’t love you for any… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief,… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop.… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“My eyes were stinging, my body shaking, and my heart seemed to be just aching deep in my chest. (...) I should… — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image
“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is nothing but a kind of microcosmos of communism—all that psychiatry,' rumbled Pnin, in his answer to Chateau. 'Why not leave… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
