If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
We have to believe that even the briefest of human connections can heal. Otherwise, life is unbearable. — Agate Nesaule Copy Share Image
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child’s math book.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps;… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men’s souls, could deprive humans of… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Im not afraid of death, Not afraid of heartbreaks, Not afraid of crying, Not afraid of sadness nor sorrow. But one thing… — Aarav Islam Jebz Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“ This lake is alive. Kicking. Breathing. Frothing. I envision it's as angry as I am. As resolved to its fate as… — S.A. McAuley Copy Share Image
“To have suffered so much in a certain direction that the suffering is finished, and only its particular wisdom remains, enables one,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he’d die himself, of the sorrow. He says he’d read that grief… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body,… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
“Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and respect your doubts and questions.… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“I feel dangerously unbalanced...like choosing to be with you is a decision to never know gentleness again.” — Ivory Quinn Copy Share Image
“we were born for sorrow we were born for pain we were born for loss but we were also born to love… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love, loss, turmoil, happiness, sorrow, anger, despair, hope, faith = Life. At some point we all accept the terms and conditions if… — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
If I am feeling joy and sorrow and have to make a choice, I will choose sorrow . The sorrowwill recognize what… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one! Tell me, whose voice proclaims Things true and sad, Naming by all their old, unhappy names, What… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“...and I felt years, cares, sorrows, thousands of gray scales peeling off me...” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate… — Yi Mun-yol Copy Share Image
There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment. — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
“His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
