Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven. — Johanna Spyri Copy Share Image
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
“I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your… — Roxana Robinson Copy Share Image
That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
“What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love's good and evil send but sorrow? I've only seen… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“How then do we recover from depression and despair? It is only by crying out to God and accepting His helping hands… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and… — Fumiko Enchi Copy Share Image
“There are some who would vow that life isn’t fair. They believe the worst is yet to come, that evil will always… — Rebecca Harris Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people translates itself into some very different questions, no… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone, I feel I am alone. I check’d him while he spoke; yet,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way, / But to act, that each to-morrow / Find us farther than today.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
“I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb." —Seneca, Hippolytus, act ii. scene 3.] A” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
“We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer. p 294” — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“It is better to take fully of life,' he told her and swallowed with a sigh of contentment. 'Savor it, feel the… — Todd McCaffrey Copy Share Image
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