Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back.… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don't know when I have been touched so deeply on so… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
“JOH16.21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is filled with challenges, mistakes are made, hearts have been broken by cherished love, filling our hearts with grief and our… — Coleen Brissett Copy Share Image
“We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Though these words will never find you, I hope that you knew I was thinking of you today….. and that I was… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The sentiment that one "should have done something more" reflects, it seems to me, an underlying wish to control the uncontrollable. After… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“After a significant loss, it's tempting to live life in the past - wishing it had been different, screaming that it was… — Eleanor Haley Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“And that's why I don't get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we're older but we're not the grown-ups who… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
“The Women in Black are Israeli Jews who meet wall in Jerusalem. They meet every Friday, the Sabbath evening, and pray. They… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
