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
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. — Alice Hoffman 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
Pools of sorrow and tears of joy, there's a broken up girl for every broken down boy. — Chicago (Band 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
Love has a cost, and it's grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That's the nature and price… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“oy is held in the seed of agony, for what was closed in the winds of grief, now opens as a flower.… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“When you're hurting, sometimes it hurts even more when someone can't give you what you need. At these times it's important to… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee,… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“And that's why I don't get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we're older but we're not the grown-ups who… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
“Never again the music blown as brightly Off of my heart as foam blown off a wave; Never again the melody that… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“It was the first time I discovered that some girls actually sneak out of the house during slumber parties and meet up… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
I saw the sorrow in Daddy's eyes I listened to the sound of Mommy's sighs In my sister, I saw what lingered… — Guardian Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“It's my own deep-rooted feeling that our souls never truly die and that life continues in some way. I know I need… — Elizabeth Berrien 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
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
“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
(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in… — Laura Branigan Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd… — Carole Geithner Copy Share Image
“The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love.” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
“As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.” — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“As long as your sorrow is like your sin and focused on the things you want, you will return to sin again… — Heath Lambert Copy Share Image
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image