The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like employment, active, indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
“When he came home early, he was dreary. There, he'd sit by the fireplace, his worn hands gripping the newspaper a bit… — Rana Mohamad Copy Share Image
Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.” — Sharon Sala Copy Share Image
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a stapler. And a box… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes,… — Carol Cassella Copy Share Image
“Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“If you could feel my sorrow and my shame. Know how I hate the things I have done--my sins, my failures, my… — Willow Aster Copy Share Image
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of… — Setterfield Diane Copy Share Image
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image