But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Wrapping myself in a cloak of sorrow doesn’t help me or anyone else—and certainly not the love that I lost.” — Kristi Hugstad Copy Share Image
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. — Anne Grant Copy Share Image
“It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“My eye, but I've been all over that ground – years and years ago. I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,’ said Mrs March. ‘In most… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby.… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all. — T.A. Barron Copy Share Image
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What… — Gordon Wright Copy Share Image
I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while,… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
“But tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. Why hadn't I noticed this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Imagine this: imagine you discover that for many years another person intimately shared your life without your knowing it. Oh, you had… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
“The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living… — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
“She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. That she… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed… — Diophantus Copy Share Image
We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
“I am shot with wounds which have eyes that see a world all sorrow, always to be, panoramic and unhealable, and mouths… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
