Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
“When he wasn’t cutting the pitiful figure of a mourning widower, he was being a downright prick.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“Weeping is the emotion of middle age. Once you get to your forties, no joy fails to remind you of its opposite,… — Scott Huler Copy Share Image
“I knew that somehow this loneliness was linked to all my other fears and worries and premonitions and to my sense, that… — Stephen Goodwin Copy Share Image
No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“There’s no way around grief. You have to go through it. You have to cry it out of your body, then wade… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
“If one’s husband had been married before and widowed—a fairly common condition—and a close relative of his first wife’s died, the second… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“Grief is like cancer. It ebbs and flows within you. Then, it changes and transforms you. Forever. Grief. Cancer. Both force you… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
“There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Romance is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of eucatastrophe,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Where there is grief there is no space for new love. For in fact grief is in itself a love that is… — Paraschiva Florescu Copy Share Image
Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
“Thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth I have of… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“I felt myself shrink to a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. I felt… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
“May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.” — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“We are all children of a God who knows us, loves us, and is there for us, especially in our sorrow and… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a well: you can never truly leave it but the walls grow wider and wider until one day you… — M.A. Kuzniar Copy Share Image
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.” — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
![“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at all without pain and grief and sorrow and turmoil? If grief and pain are sometimes necessary for growth of the person, then we must learn not to protect people from…” quote by Abraham H. Maslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/abraham-h-maslow-40250_death_the-question-of-desirable-grief-and-pain_2170879.jpg)
