“Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.” — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Joy multiples when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.” — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.” — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I don't know about angels, but humans need unanswered questions so that they have a reason to look.” — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“Past relationships are a loss, so we have to deal with them like loss. We must fully grieve. We must feel the… — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“Odasaku," Dazai said softly. "Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen… — Kafka Asagiri Copy Share Image
“Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
“They’ll ask you, child, what you know of suffering. They’ll ask you where it hurts the most, when the pain changes like… — Kwame Opoku-Duku Copy Share Image
the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“What is your name?' she asked. The youth ignored her, lowering his eyelids against the sun. She repeated her question. Again he… — Sherryl Jordan Copy Share Image
“The problem, the only problem, is my mother. And she is the one of course that I am trying to get; it… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“I expected to feel only empty and heartbroken after Paul died. It never occurred to me that you could love someone the… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“After a significant loss, it's tempting to live life in the past - wishing it had been different, screaming that it was… — Eleanor Haley Copy Share Image
“The sentiment that one "should have done something more" reflects, it seems to me, an underlying wish to control the uncontrollable. After… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
“This is how the Dauntless mourn: by chasing grief into the oblivion of alcohol and leaving it there.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“A kiss…. ….. is just a kiss…. Until it’s all you reminisce. (Then the memory becomes your most treasured possession.)” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know… — Alice Adams Copy Share Image
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Grief is a closet Full of emptiness As shoes Without your feet, Hats Without your head.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to laugh through the tears, smile through the years, go through the sorrow, for a better tomorrow — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
“I was insufferable long before we lost her. Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If I had to write down everything I've done in my entire life, I'll begin with writing all my sorrows in sand… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
