All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog,"… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.” — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“The first morning passed, and the first afternoon, then the first shift back at work. time takes it all, whether you want… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
An Angel watches over me. She sings away my melancholy, whispers away my despair, caresses away my loneliness. She makes me laugh,… — Vladislas Nikilovic Copy Share Image
“For is there any human sorrow so great that the blessing of mere daylight on the earth does not far exceed? We… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“It was both terrible and oddly humbling to realize how easily physical discomfort could take control, expanding like poison gas until it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
“As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
As I dream I miss the breathe of your soul on my face. The deepest thoughts of you floods my eyes with… — Esper Copy Share Image
“She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Instead of weeping and feeling a sense of loss after the death of those who are dear to you, always send them… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I made most of all this sorrow. I tried to brave this discontent, but now I'm through. I'm letting go of you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“The Dark Night of the Soul is not merely “having a bad day” or even week. The Dark Night is a long,… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," Leo murmured and then seemed to look through Martin for a few seconds before he returned his gaze to him.… — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm.… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“The Infinite One cannot be torn apart from itself. It is our personification of good, our belief that it belongs to a… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“I expected to feel only empty and heartbroken after Paul died. It never occurred to me that you could love someone the… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
