“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy. — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
“ So much ice. She thumbed a drying tear away. How much water can the weight of ice carry? ” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.” — Carol Cassella Copy Share Image
“I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose… — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“I will survive my grief, amen. I have run into the darkness and arrived in the morning still living, amen. I have… — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life… But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“You are right in your consciousness that we are all echoes and reverberations of the same, and you are noble when your… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing." Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me. But what about… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
My Heart, Back where it belongs, Where it is adored, Respected, Appreciated. My Mind, Total Chaos, Perfect Clarity. I see the truth,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I am convinced it is, then our churches are filled with believers who are hurting, to one degree or another, whether visible… — Glenn Pemberton Copy Share Image
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“Laughter was good medicine for the soul, and looking for things to be joyful about had helped Emma through the worst of… — Wanda E. Brunstetter Copy Share Image
“I’m bound together now in both sadness and hope. I feel grief every day, even if it’s a whisper in the background… — Cheri Davies Copy Share Image
“Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“You always drop by, to en- lighten my mind, when my wings are feeling heavy & i've forgotten how to fly.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“Was the act of forgetting the dead and forgetting the grief one of the tricks of keeping one’s sanity? Whatever” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
A life made out of illusions is unforgivable, but a life without illusions is unbearable. — Eugene OâNeil Copy Share Image
Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings — Nicholas Rowe Copy Share Image
“There is no time to grief in the midst of war, grief weakens the soldiers, tears of hope is all one can… — Kumbirai Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“the night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image