“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Healing is not about moving on or “getting over it,” it’s about learning to make peace with our pain and finding purpose… — Shirley Kamisky Copy Share Image
“There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I… — Alan Davies 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
“Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler… He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“They think I'm not dealing with my grief, but I simply refuse to give them the satisfaction of seeing it. I won't… — Cheyenne Berandi Copy Share Image
“Missing someone is a crazy-quilt kind of thing: acceptance one piece, but right above the acceptance patch is another patch, this one… — Lee Fullbright Copy Share Image
“Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world.… — Peter Pouncey Copy Share Image
Push me away, if you dont feel like you can be faithful, pull me close, if I'm the one you cant leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that I was so sad I felt as if I might be happy, or in love, simply… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world. One: I see a theme park where there are lots of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I used to cry to the stars in the sky and begged them to have mercy on me cause I longed for… — Magdalena Ganowska Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how well you are doing,” John complimented me just a few minutes after he mentioned the Christmas card.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief,… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
Ain't no shame in holding on to grief, as long as you make room for other things too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.” — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
![“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. The young king [crown prince Henry, †1183] and the count of Britanny [prince…” quote by Eleanor of Aquitaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/015/eleanor-of-aquitaine-52379_death-wish_pitiful-and-pitied-by-no-one-why-have-i_796292.jpg)
