In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“If only I could bear all your sorrows for you! . . . Ah! you were so happy when you were little… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough. — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“I'd ask my parents to leave the door open just a little bit so I wouldn't be stuck in the prison of… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
“For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?" His eyes narrow… — Rebecca Sparrow Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost liked to distinguish between grievances (complaints) and griefs (sorrows). He even suggested that grievances, which are propagandistic, should be restricted… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
“You wrote in a poem, “I love your body,” as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more… — David Plante Copy Share Image
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My grandmother’s unkindness, for instance, was the result of repressed grief over three deaths: her parents, before she was twelve, and her… — Nancy Cobb Copy Share Image
“There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Why shouldn't his death bring you into some total scandal of garment-rending grief? Why should you accommodate his death? Or surrender to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Though life has fated that we never cross paths again, don’t ever feel alone. For we are parallel …. and I will… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.” — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“My father does not deserve my sorrow, only relief. He can no longer torment anyone.” — Emily R. King Copy Share Image
“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?' I am made of memories. 'Speak, then.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“I become distantly aware of my own grief, and I realize how easily I'm able to force it away.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The emptiness I'd been struggling to overcome settled around me like a dark, unwavering cloud.” — Trisha Leaver Copy Share Image
The little mermaid watch the happy prince with the woman he loves, then she changes into a bubble drifts and disappears into… — The Little Mermaid Copy Share Image
“She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“grief is as much about regret for what you’ve never had as sadness for what you’ve lost. Anyway, we got through it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
