“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of… — Overstreet Copy Share Image
“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I always noticed that in art school, that grief was considered more profound than happiness. But why? — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt." We stay in the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You can’t hold it in forever,” Colton said, apropos of nothing. “Yes, I can.” I had to. “You’ll go crazy. It’ll come… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“I am a wife, mother, and friend, and soon to be grandmother, I still feel, understand, and am worthy of the love… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
“ All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I understand why sin eaters were made. Carrying such feelings is too much for one little heart, too much for one body.… — Megan Campisi Copy Share Image
“It's grief," said Akiva. "It's rage. It makes us into the thing we despise." And he thought, And I was the thing… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“i believe your tragedies, your losses , your sorrows ,your hurt happen for you not to you. And i bless the thing… — Rebecca Campbell Copy Share Image
“She knew every word that had ever been spoken, but she could think of nothing to say that might ease his grief.” — Scott Hawkins Copy Share Image
“It is when an end descends that we either find immense joy in its departure, or we are weighed heavy with grief… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“I saw sadness when I looked at what was left of them. The demigods who had once controlled the heavens had been… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water tawny color of kicked up dirt Every breath is full of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The grief hits her hard one day. the way it can't be controlled. The way that yesterday can be good and so… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Grief rose up in him and, knowing it would be too much to face, shoved it down.” — Jason Andrew Bond Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Though my heart may be heavy with grief, I will keep my head up and smile about the good things despite tears.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image