Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“You are far more than your worst day, your worst experience, your worst season, dear one. You are more than the sorriest… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“Grief was like the mud that covered them. Messy. Quickly spreading everywhere, once it found a way in.” — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“My mind is, to use a disgustingly obvious simile, like a wastebasket full of waste paper; bits of hair, and rotting apple… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. But watch it, mister. There's a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The early bats are tying the air, the heart, into knots. They fly on the wings of grief. The late butterfly follows… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
“I have never seen her face – yet she holds my heart with both hands.” — Jetta L. Leoth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the agony of her loss reminded her that every day was a gift, and the depth of her love reminded her… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.” — Drew Karpyshyn Copy Share Image
“They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse,… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Because God knows how miserable sorrow is, He comes down to help us. A God who is only transcendent cannot be empathetic.… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“Grief, my dear, is love's bittersweet encore—a poignant ovation to the bonds we held dear. As we mourn, we unravel the threads… — lifeispositive.com Copy Share Image
“"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim." --” — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
