“But the cost of steeling yourself against grief was that you had to steel yourself against joy, as well.” — Sophie Littlefield Copy Share Image
When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Most people don't ever want to use a gun to protect themselves - that's the last thing they want to do -… — Murphy J. Foster, Jr Copy Share Image
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.” — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious… — Homer Copy Share Image
“the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone,… — Jon Blais Copy Share Image
“Today's youth has not learned 'to see humor in misfortune,' because they have hardly known what misfortune is. They are being urged… — Julián Marías Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
“If we are not to sacrifice some part of ourselves or our community, we will have to go through the grief, the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“He understood how grief can twist a heart, how passions drive good men to folly.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“How do you say what's in your heart if your heart is something you haven't known for years? How do you give… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content;… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The wave of pure outrage blindsided me. I shouldn't be here, I thought. This is utterly fucked up. I should have been… — Tana French Copy Share Image
