“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
“My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ” — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“...what I'm saying isn't for him. If my words were for him they would be different; softer, and more meaningful. They would… — Cheyenne Berandi Copy Share Image
“Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like… — Shilpi Somaya Gowda Copy Share Image
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Mom could have shared her suffering with her children, but she didn't. She could have succumbed to a world of pain and… — Ron Mayes Copy Share Image
Having some form of structure to process and manage grief collectively surely helps: as someone put it to me, grief is like… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“ Sonnet I am no stranger in the house of pain; I am familiar with its every part, From the low stile,… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“This initial numbness and denial is shock and it is a gift. Shock is a grace period. It gives a woman time… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Strangely, I thought of the emotion I ought to feel without feeling it, as impartial as a National Geographic field researcher, carefully… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I want you to think of two different situations. First, remember times when you've felt your best, at the top of your… — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
Why are you struggling my love? What broken love has hurt you like this? Why does A fool pick a rose and… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“If we wished to gain contentment, we might try such rules as these: 1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even… — Edward Bouverie Pusey Copy Share Image
If I didn't drain the sorrow, you would have made me suffer a life of no love anyway. — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
“Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back.… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that… — Shelley Ramsey Grief A Mama's Unwanted Journey Copy Share Image
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
Behind your smile, I know there are sorrows. Behind your laughters, I know there are tears. But I want you 2 know… — Se7en Copy Share Image
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. — Richard Bach 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
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
“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
