Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Some losses never heal you just learn to carry the burden and shed a tear every now and then” — Tina Gayle Copy Share Image
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. — Bede Jarrett Copy Share Image
“Countless times, I have imagined A. rising through the rivers of this land, to the surface of Florida to be found again,… — Rhonda Riley Copy Share Image
Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
“Some people are never overcome by anything: not by grief, not by love, not by anything or anyone. They never hold on… — C. JoyBell C.Bell C Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“When I’m struggling with the fear of my own death, or with grief over the death of someone I love, what comforts… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal -… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love.” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on… — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In one way, it's a relief I know I'll never have another child. I don't live with the sorrow I had when… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
