“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
“We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to… — Sarah Winter Copy Share Image
“Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty.” — Ash Krafton Copy Share Image
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun Copy Share Image
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
“I forget the last time I felt brave, I just recall insecurity Cause it came down like a tidal wave, and sorrow… — Owl City Copy Share Image
The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“(The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I couldn't swallow. It had to be wrong. We had to be able to rewind. It couldn't be real. It felt so… — cristina henriquez Copy Share Image
“When you weep, Jesus weeps with you. And together you enter into the dance of tears. The dance of tears with Jesus… — Catherine Martin Copy Share Image
“When there is a huge crack in your relationship with someone, you wonder what others do in similar situations. I realize I'm… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
“The grief I’m feeling is heavy and raw, pressing down on me, breaking my chest apart. It hurts to even touch the… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a “vale of tears,” and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up. — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening. — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening. — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb." —Seneca, Hippolytus, act ii. scene 3.] A” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
“We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer. p 294” — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“It is better to take fully of life,' he told her and swallowed with a sigh of contentment. 'Savor it, feel the… — Todd McCaffrey Copy Share Image
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image