Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Her broken heart was still beating. How come? Buses were running, buzzing, humming. People were smiling. Birds' chatter and kids' laughter rang… — NZ Kaminsky Copy Share Image
“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth –… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to… — Moses ibn Ezra Copy Share Image
“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when… — Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith Copy Share Image
It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“Grief was messy. It didn’t have the elegance of longing, the poetry of heartbreak; its wholeness made it solid, its certainty made… — Lara Williams Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he… — Helmuth Plessner Copy Share Image
“If you have not resolved your grief, it will affect your future relationships including the one you have with yourself. Including the… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic,… — Ruth Graham Copy Share Image
“Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing conspiracy of smiles and… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem… — Silas House Copy Share Image
What do you do, when your Soul Mate dies? What is left? Is it enough to be half? Do I matter now,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
