Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“...and I felt years, cares, sorrows, thousands of gray scales peeling off me...” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it’s incurable. I’ve just learned to live with it.” — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated,… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“Grief is like your favorite pair of old sweats. You get comfortable in them. So comfortable you don’t want to take them… — Caisey Quinn Copy Share Image
“It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself against Love's blows: so I went on confident, unsuspecting;… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.” — Fr James Groenings Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the kids come home, we get back into the same routines: Sitting around the table, flipping grief to each other and… — Mark Schlereth Copy Share Image
Your sorrow? I feel that. Your pain? I know the feeling. Your past? I won't ask. A new future? I can offer… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“And I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“One of heartbreak's chief qualities seemed to be its ability to distort time and distances.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“There are sorrows, that is true.' Arconn said thoughtfully. 'We lose those who are close to us, and we are sad when… — M. L. Forman Copy Share Image
Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds, for the things that die before their time. — Counting Crows Copy Share Image
The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Moja molitva i moja pokora, moj život i moja smrt, sve to pripada Bogu, stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.” — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
“WHENEVER YOU ARE FEELING SAD, I want you to anticipate feeling joyful again. This takes the sting out of your sorrow because… — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
“Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
“I feel like I am a diluted version of myself. A piece of crayon that was left unused. An abandoned car that… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Love has a cost, and it's grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That's the nature and price… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“Survival is balance. Life’s ugliness is balanced by beauty. Trauma is balanced by awe. For me, being on the road has come… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image