“One of the worst things about burying a child is the stress of wondering.” — Leslie A. Gordon Copy Share Image
“...grief. If you eat too much of it, you want more, you can never get enough.” — Ai Copy Share Image
“Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Words cannot explain the bruise that festers into a river that runs deep filled with pain n sorrows which only the visible… — A.N. Knight Copy Share Image
You don't choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“But then I suppose I’ve never really lost anyone. How would I know what that kind of grief feels like?” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“sorrows and joys are so intricately woven together, deleting either of them would erase the other half.” — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
The biggest heartbreaks, the greatest memories, the happiest of times. Treasure them all. They make the learning lessons out of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief will always accept the invitation to appear. It's got plenty of time for you.” — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“But as time moved on, the nature of the grief changed. In some ways it was almost crueller in the way it… — Cass Green Copy Share Image
When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I wonder where it all comes from - this need to go to the place where the body has been laid to… — Takashi Hiraide Copy Share Image
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“It is okay to release your feelings when you feel the waves coming. It's all part of the process of having to… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“While grief is not fun to deal with, it is a valuable tool to bring about amazing change and growth. The key… — Diamante Lavendar Copy Share Image
“When someone you love has dementia, you too experience a form of anticipatory grief, but yours may extend over a longer period… — Wolfelt PhD CT Copy Share Image
“It was more likely the fear of emptiness, of being left alone in a shadow world when everyone else abandoned me, each… — Ebba Haslund Copy Share Image
“I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Grief is not linear. People kept telling me that once this happened or that passed, everything would be better. Some people gave… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
And that's where I think vulnerability comes in - the fact that we're figuring out that there is strength in actually being… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
“The tears of those who never cry, the calm, the levelheaded ones, are terrible to see. She seemed to be split or… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family.… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“When the Earth suffers, we do not stand outside it—we ache with her.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
