“Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“ So much ice. She thumbed a drying tear away. How much water can the weight of ice carry? ” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT: PAIN YOU'VE BEEN FEELING WILL SOON GO AWAY.. ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT: JOY IS ON THE WAY.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy. — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“When we share in each other's grief and pain, we lighten it. Or maybe we just give each other permission to feel… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on… — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the… — John Pearson Copy Share Image
When I cry, you hold my hand and smile at me and in a moment I forget whether my tears are out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always encourage people who had a loss of any kind that you find something to focus on that takes you out… — Kathy Eldon Copy Share Image
“But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“His name was Sam.” She was still staring at the fire. Was Sam … “What happened?” She looked at him, smiling sadly.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes,… — Carol Cassella Copy Share Image
“This is how it is to come near you A wave of light builds in the black pupil of the eye. The… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Every tear that I shed in pain of the grief gift of your love, I do not cry tears as if I… — Sappho Khizar Copy Share Image
“Old Marsh wore a look of sorrow upon his face. “You called him, miss. You called him. You must send him back… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' The… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“Laughter was good medicine for the soul, and looking for things to be joyful about had helped Emma through the worst of… — Wanda E. Brunstetter Copy Share Image
“I’m bound together now in both sadness and hope. I feel grief every day, even if it’s a whisper in the background… — Cheri Davies Copy Share Image
“...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.” — Carol Cassella Copy Share Image
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
