The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Just days after Joseph died, we sat down to eat dinner at the dining room table. We each sat there, choking down… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“We have a soul at times. No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Betrayal is one of the most emotionally painful experiences a person can have, with its potent cocktail of fear, grief and anger;… — Voula Grand Copy Share Image
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“I began to recognize that there was a part of me that was stronger than I ever could have imagined. I didn't… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your… — Phillip Brooks Copy Share Image
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
“Was it as Ada had suggested, that we can choose our own endings, joy over sorrow? Or does the cruel world just… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image