“We do not have control over many things in life and death but we do have control over the meaning we give… — Nathalie Himmelrich Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life-but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
“I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I have a silent sorrow here; A grief Ill neer impart; It breathes no sigh, it sheds not tear, But it consumes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“My friend Gordon Wheeler, who is a psychologist, explains that grief is the reminder of the depth of our love. Without love,… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Neeve,” Blue said. “Neeve, he’s — dying.” Neeve had come to stand just behind her. She replied, “Not yet.” Gansey was nearly… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this,"… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“It just like a grain of sand it slipped away from our hand, Our destiny was lay shattered all across the land,… — Popoola Rasheed Olanrewaju Copy Share Image
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I had met death before, in different forms--I knew quite well the pattern of my grieving. First came shock, and then tears,… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Those who have slept with sorrow in their hearts Know all too well how short but sweet The instant of their coming-to… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse,… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“..grief never goes away. And that's no bad thing - it's only the other side of love, after all.” — Carys Bray Copy Share Image
“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Beneath the trees there is no ease For the dull brain, the sharp desires And the quick eyes of Woolly Bear. There… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
“In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in every parting there was some of the joy of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image