When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
“This is how the Dauntless mourn: by chasing grief into the oblivion of alcohol and leaving it there.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“I don't know about angels, but humans need unanswered questions so that they have a reason to look.” — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
“As long as your sorrow is like your sin and focused on the things you want, you will return to sin again… — Heath Lambert Copy Share Image
“He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.” — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief is one big, gaping hole, isn’t it? It’s everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you can’t go on because… — Marieke Nijkamp Copy Share Image
She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe… — Amber Garibay Copy Share Image
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living… — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all… — Catherine Burns Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
“There was a letter, tucked among the pictures. It was addressed to Santa Claus and written in blue crayon. The jerky letters… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
“Countless times, I have imagined A. rising through the rivers of this land, to the surface of Florida to be found again,… — Rhonda Riley Copy Share Image
“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of that Florida lady again, the one who wanted a book about the lighter side of a child's death, and… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love.” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
“They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd… — Carole Geithner Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in… — Laura Branigan Copy Share Image
“Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.” — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
“Now courting’s a pleasure, and parting is grief, but a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief!” — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Everything is happening as part of life.If we are stuck up with happiness and sorrows, we will be unable to face the… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
![“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
![“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too. As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't…” quote by Bill Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/bill-bass-77319_atheism_all-my-life-i-d-been-a-believing-christi_222687.jpg)
![“I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.” quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df3/samuel-taylor-coleridge-425_bible_i-have-found-words-in-the-bible-for-my-i_1305419.jpg)
