“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever,… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure… — allimachus and Lycophron CXLII Copy Share Image
“(The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are… — A.W. Streane Copy Share Image
“The only way past the pain is through it. You can't escape it. You can't ignore it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in the shape of felled… — John Banville Copy Share Image
People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear,… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
No matter how much sorrow or happiness can distort our feelings, we should keep on striving towards our goals, because feelings come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Each grass from a lifeless grain is bred, Else to harvest no wheat were won: Always from good is good begun. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Saving You The darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Love me today, and more tomorrow, and I will take away your pain, and ease your sorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts... You can't let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“the five stages of zombie grief: denial, acceptance, hunger, more hunger, and knock-knock jokes.” — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be… — Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D Copy Share Image
