“What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps;… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“So strange that David Drucker of all people was the only one who said the exact right thing: Your dad shouldn't have… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Love, loss, turmoil, happiness, sorrow, anger, despair, hope, faith = Life. At some point we all accept the terms and conditions if… — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley. — Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Copy Share Image
“Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.” — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“And both of them are crying then, caught again in the surprise of their grief. After a year of mourning, they know… — Sandra Scofield Copy Share Image
“Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“we will spend this long afternoon crying and laughing at the same time, so that i can no longer tell which one… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
His gaze against the sweeping of the bars / has grown so weary, it can hold no more. To him, there seem… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
