No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty.” — Ash Krafton Copy Share Image
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun Copy Share Image
At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening. — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening. — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
“Many people tried comforting us with words. But there are no consoling words! I really just wanted people to be quiet. I… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front… — Judith Tarr Copy Share Image
“How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“...my writing, my desire to be many lives. I will be a little god in my small way. At home on my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Just so you know, I realize that what happened is not in any way okay, but I think we're going to have… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“Her voice seemed to loosen something in Greta’s stomach, some knot she’d been holding on to for years, and now the knot… — Jen Beagin Copy Share Image
“Hope Was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men.… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“One fast more or I'm gone', I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When Rosencrantz asks Hamlet, "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
