You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like… — Thomas Golden, Jr Copy Share Image
Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“Hope alone is a placebo, that can lead to grief For hope without effort, seldom brings relief” — Gil Gonzales Copy Share Image
“Chimerical grief — now guilt, now blame, now the thought that it could all have been otherwise. ~ Glory” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“…included in this grief were the hidden rooms of his life. He told me that hurt was bad enough and that I… — bitter in the mouth Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a “vale of tears,” and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Her empathy was like a double-edged razor that allowed her to experience the nethermost of human joys and sorrows. The best and… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“there is a list of questions i want to ask but never will there is a list of questions i go through… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“The times, the seasons, the signs may have been mythical; but the sufferings were not. I lay in the dark with the… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“She had thought often of Ada's words about inventing new endings to stories and choosing joy over sorrow. In recent years she… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life you want to tell people how you feel but there are no words to describe the pain and sorrow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“wasn’t a comfortable headspace. Suffocating, actually, but you were alive and still the endgame. I’d go back in time for those problems.… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign. I’m just not ready… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and love ― life, in other words ― cannot be considered a sickness because they hurt.” — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“Against the day of sorrow Lay by some trifling thing A smile, a kiss, a flower, For sweet remembering” — Georgia Douglas Johnson Copy Share Image
What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He… — David Gill Copy Share Image
Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Pools of sorrow and tears of joy, there's a broken up girl for every broken down boy. — Chicago (Band Copy Share Image
This silence speaks a million words Words of comfort so shallow How I wish even for one tear But for my heart… — Swallow The Sun Copy Share Image
“I felt on the verge of something, a mystery that surrounded me like gauze, something I was beginning to unwind.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Your grief will fade…It's hard to believe this now, my friend…but it will wither and, like a flower, leave behind always a… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image