“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Eby knew all too well that there was a fine line when it came to grief. If you ignore it, it goes… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them,… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain, I cry and weep every time I walk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I realized that it was not Ko-san, now safely ditched for ever, but Ko-san's mother who stood in need of pity and… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“Who Do You Turn To? By Sydney Baker When you’ve lost all of your hope, Who do you turn to? When your… — Deanna Frances Copy Share Image
“…in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.’ I have used this quote from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet as… — Saeed Akhtar Mirza Copy Share Image
“Andrei rested on a bench directly in front of a grave that belonged to: 'A father, hard worker, and beloved friend.' He… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“If you never knew the worlds in my mind your sense of loss would be small pity and we’ll forget this on… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought… — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
The tears have come never thought they would but they did I I I'm do sorry I've screwed up but now your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“And here's the shock -- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“It surprised him that his grief was sharper than in the past few days. He had forgotten that grief does not decline… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Dreams hit the fan? Life unexpectedly take a turn for the worst? Here’s what you do: First thing I think is to… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?' (Psalm 42:2)… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
“Seriously protecting yourself calls for the annihilation of ties with society, ties that most people need the way they need oxygen. You… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“Because God knows how miserable sorrow is, He comes down to help us. A God who is only transcendent cannot be empathetic.… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“And time is a curious thing. Most of us only live for the time that lies right ahead of us. A few… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Funerals, in fact, are one of the most powerful examples of collective pain. They feature in a surprising finding from my research… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have arrived at the age of grief. Others arrive there… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
![“Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the…” quote by Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/03f/michael-eric-dyson-1424_agony_michael-jackson-reconstructed-his-face-a_2394872.jpg)
![“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/497/anonymous-1_accounts_and-when-b-or-lay-dead-of-no-wound-or-gr_1696037.jpg)
![“I realized that it was not Ko-san, now safely ditched for ever, but Ko-san's mother who stood in need of pity and consideration. She must still live on in this hard unpitying world, but he, once he had jumped [in battle], had jumped beyond such things. The case could well have been different, had…” quote by Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f93/soseki-natsume-9685_grief_i-realized-that-it-was-not-ko-san-now-sa_2993922.jpg)
