“Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We cant choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs were given. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Grief made fools of us all. There was shock in it, but there could hardly be surprise.” — Lia Mills Copy Share Image
I know from experience that one of the first things to drop off during great transitions, such as dealing with grief or… — Mandy Ingber Copy Share Image
The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living. — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave. — Else Lasker-Schuler Copy Share Image
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woods In sorrow, sorrow. Your hand, where is your hand? - In the… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“Old Men’s Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Witness, Heaven, how often I lie down in my bed with a wish, and even a hope, that I may never awaken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ My dad died, I write. almost a year ago. Car accident. My hand is shaking; my eyes sting and fill. I… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“Something significant in me snapped when I miscarried; that something hadnt unsnapped yet. It hadn't been put back together and I was… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
“The word for teardrinkers is lachryphagous, and for the eaters of human flesh it is anthropophagous, and the rest of us feed… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“And yet and yet! That strained look on her face! A gnawing sorrow is there all the time. Her very soul is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“I pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Our parting was like a stalemate…. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still … that unshakable feeling… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“You can’t reject your sorrow, it always comes knocking when you least want it and it does bring enough reinforcements to wear… — Patrick Honovich Copy Share Image
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will… — Mizu Sahara Copy Share Image
“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“I try to imagine myself without grief, without anger, but I cannot. "What remains?" "Hope," she says, smiling. "Hope remains.” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of… — Darien Gee Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“Grief was just the moment before you tied off the thread and began the next one. That was when you made your… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
