The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish… — Joseph Simmons Copy Share Image
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To end sorrow one must understand the sadness. The pain must be felt, you need to be hurt to know it. — Naseem C Khan Copy Share Image
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
“He gives her a lump of grief that has hardened at the bottom of the canvas pocket at his waist. He gives… — Tina May Hall Copy Share Image
It was already tearing me apart knowing that I couldn't have you anymore. I spent numerous hours spilling tears all over myself,… — Dan Pellegrino Copy Share Image
This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“But the place where we're most broken, most empty of ourselves... is the place where we can be filled in a way… — Laurie Tomlinson Copy Share Image
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage.” — gregory david roberts Copy Share Image
