“He was both everything I could ever want… And nothing I could ever have…” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Dry your eyes mate, I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts, but you’ve got to walk… — Mike Skinner Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life. — Caitriona Balfe Copy Share Image
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that the mourning process of the film involves discussing it, dissecting it, and at some point, you get bored with… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In grief, there isn't time to want to be like someone else. Trauma means reacting in the moment, as you are. You… — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
“What’s the benefit of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then? There is good… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Tragedies, I was coming to realize through my daily studies in humanities both in and out of the classroom, were a luxury.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Self-Exam Dear audience, please stand if you were raised By a terrible mother. Okay, okay, Approximately half of you. So I'd say… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Trap. Horrible trap. At one’s birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“At Abraham's burial, his two most prominent sons, rivals since before they were born, estranged since childhood, scions of rival nations, come… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.” — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently.” — Turcois Ominek Copy Share Image
“They say “Follow your heart”…. …. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Never compare your grief. You - and only you walk your path.” — Nathalie Himmelrich Copy Share Image