“Grief and loss are probably the most fearful creatures that exist. But loss shouldn't be a fearful creature. It should be a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“sorrows and joys are so intricately woven together, deleting either of them would erase the other half.” — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning. — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief. — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“She held his hand tightly, as the life support system was removed. Her stomach contracted, she felt like she was being squeezed… — Kirthi Jayakumar Copy Share Image
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“That’s it. I’m asking you, I’m really asking you—how is it possible that we aren’t in a permanent state of mourning?” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Not a second passes... When you're not on our minds... Your love we will never forget... The hurt will ease in time... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.” — Shari J. Ryan 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
“I’d read enough to know that one of the symptoms of grief was a deep anger at the loved one who’d died,… — Katherine Allred Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people that have lost siblings, and it's not really discussed as much. I feel like you talk… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
