Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A single emotion Brings hundreds of tears Each one warm and salty Like water droplets In the Pacific Ocean Some are caused… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
“What if it's as simple as one moment? One tiny thing, like that kiss on the rocks? What if I'd kissed him… — Kristina McBride Copy Share Image
“Sorry, ... implies that the loss will only ever be a loss. That it won't, in some way, transform into something else.… — Sanjena Sathian Copy Share Image
“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I initially discovered hiraeth on social media, and it made me suck in my breath as something stirred deep within me. It's… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“How odd to smile during Richard's funeral. He was dead and I was smiling to myself. Grief does that. Laughter lies close… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Every emotion I’d ever felt was coursing through me, desire, need, joy, love, and even grief. We’d been through everything, through things… — Deanna Roy Copy Share Image
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow.… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-she had reached… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What is quicker than the wind? Thought. What can cover the Earth? Darkness. Who are more numerous? The living or the dead?… — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are, life is desperately hard sometimes. People we love die, and the longer we live, the more we… — Allyson Dinneen Copy Share Image
“Hello grief Good morning grief insect that lurks in me and all night long lies in wait till I open my eye… — Odysseus Elytis Copy Share Image
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Forget all pains, hatred, sorrows, jealousy and grudges. Embrace smiles, love, happiness, appreciations and compassion for everyone around you. Heres wishing you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A life made out of illusions is unforgivable, but a life without illusions is unbearable. — Eugene OâNeil Copy Share Image
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image