“Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“Má, please do not cry. I know I could have bought bread with it, a room for the night. I could have… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.” — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in the stillness of my room, my mom’s voice came to me, repeating things she’d said for months. Like, “My skin… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— "Have a care of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The gardener who grew ghosts learned that grief is not a problem to solve. It is soil to tend.” — Zain Omarjee Copy Share Image
“In the mornings I awoke with salty crust of tears around my eyes--my grief struggling to surface when I was in my… — Chandra Prasad Copy Share Image
“Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Clown in the Moon" My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
In sorrow, we rise I thirst for the tears that you wept all night so that even in sorrow, we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“We got dressed, and walked downstairs and into the parlor. Everyone was clean in the clean parlor, and waiting for supper, sitting… — James Agee Copy Share Image
I have privately met with victims of the former Unification Church, and directly heard about their horrifying experiences. As a politician, I… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
My heart is broken by the arrow but my head keeps saying to take it slow. There's so much pain and sorrow,… — Daniya Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
“I look around myself wildly, my heart bursting with grief and fear and joy. I am leaving, but I will take this… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I live every day knowing that today might be the day that my cancer returns. But rather than look at this as… — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb." —Seneca, Hippolytus, act ii. scene 3.] A” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away. — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
“He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I had a hard time actually. It was an emotion that I couldn't relate to. I've never experienced grief and sadness but… — January Jones Copy Share Image
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing...but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction...” — Stephen King Copy Share Image