“Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one. — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.” — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
“What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“It began with the Christmas tree lights. They were candy-bright, mouth-size. She wanted to feel the lightness of them on her tongue,… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Having some form of structure to process and manage grief collectively surely helps: as someone put it to me, grief is like… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“Mom could have shared her suffering with her children, but she didn't. She could have succumbed to a world of pain and… — Ron Mayes Copy Share Image
“Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief, Nor spring deny… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal -… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“It is important to recognize when you have been detached from life for too long. The fact is you are still alive,… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
