“What pays for all this?" "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Depression, contrary to what we normally believe, is not sadness but an inability to fully feel sadness. Depression is sorrow denied.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!❤” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“One of heartbreak's chief qualities seemed to be its ability to distort time and distances.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But I think it is so important to not rush the process of grief- & I do not mean moping & wallowing.… — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
“I rarely have a pet tell me their human ended their life too soon. It's far more common to hear that their… — Karen A Anderson Copy Share Image
You don't get over it, you just get through it. You don't get by it, because you cant get around it. It… — Wendy Feireisen Copy Share Image
“Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“[I]t was the knowledge that I was surrounded by adults with lives that I could never imagine living. It was the humming… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. "No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them...Things are impermanent, they wear out and are… — J Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in… — Mary-Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
“My best advice to myself was to act like I’d been there before. I was in way over my head, and I… — Michael Deeze Copy Share Image
In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Grief is not meant to be the soul's final destination; rather a resting place for the heart as we emerge onto the… — Karen A Anderson Copy Share Image
“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“... Now I'll close my eyes with all my strength and fly away singing my baby girl's favorite song.” — John Zea 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
“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...” — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
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