Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Don't let the present pass in sorrow, hoping that the future will be full of Joy. — RVM Copy Share Image
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition. — Paula White Copy Share Image
“But before that day it felt like at least I had an ally on this boat. Now I have nothing. Well, I… — Emily Skrutskie Copy Share Image
Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“What I keep thinking about is that... it’s a long time ahead of me without her. My whole 20s. And 30s. And… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced… — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much… — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Slowly falling down the hole Feverishly flailing, no place to hold. Consumed by darkness, where did she go? Sadness has its hold… — Kaile Stewart Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What were you going to make for Christmas dinner?” one of my older children asked in a very reasonable tone. I cleared… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
People think they know you. They think they know how you're handling a situation. But the truth is, no one knows. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.'… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
“He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“With every blink, memories swell inside me and water seeps out the ducts of my eyes. The body can only hold so… — Meagan Macvie Copy Share Image
“the friend neither sang of grief, nor open his heart to me he muttled in his inquisition and wasted his life and… — William Graham Lorenzo Haehnle Copy Share Image
“How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back… All those years I spent unhappy with him ….… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“You left and took the light with you— I am lost. I don't know how to come back.” — Arvyn Cerézo Copy Share Image
“The past five years had informed me about human sorrow. While no two griefs are the same, nobody understands suffering like those… — Helen Brown Copy Share Image
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“We all have our little sorrows...and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow.” — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“When a tsunami hits, you know, on the one hand it's complete destruction, and on the other hand now you have this… — Rachel Goldberg-Polin Copy Share Image
Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Copy Share Image
“And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have a silent sorrow here; A grief Ill neer impart; It breathes no sigh, it sheds not tear, But it consumes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. — Jeanie Cameron Copy Share Image
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