“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
Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
“I don't get as much fan mail as an actor or singer would, but when I get a letter 99% of the… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“There are some who would vow that life isn’t fair. They believe the worst is yet to come, that evil will always… — Rebecca Harris Copy Share Image
I think we all need to learn to live the lives we've got and not mourn the ones we don't. — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Life online is a whiplash between deep sorrow, unexpected joy, cheap laughs, profound thoughts, and dumb memes.” — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
When I cry, you hold my hand and smile at me and in a moment I forget whether my tears are out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
“...ultimately, eventually, we let go. We do this not because we're ready. We do this not because we've mended. We do this… — Laurie Frankel 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
“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
