An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In life, grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it no shortcuts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
“Dear refuge of my weary soul, On thee, when sorrows rise, On thee, when waves of trouble roll, My fainting hope relies.” — Anne Steele Copy Share Image
“Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connexion; and why should I describe a sorrow which all… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development… — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we… — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
“I feel like Sleeping Beauty, forever asleep, with the waking world continuing on without me fully aware. Only there is no prince… — Tiffany Clare Copy Share Image
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has a deep longing in our heart. We may yearn for a marriage partner, a child, or the… — Dianne Neal Matthews Copy Share Image
Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries."… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
When a family member commits suicide, the entire family is plunged into confusion and grief. Life is instinctually valued by all of… — Nikislonely Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Grief isn't always a knife-sharp twist in your heart or a dull bludgeon in your stomach, sometimes it's a net, cast suddenly… — Non Pratt Copy Share Image
“... I don't know what I feel anymore, or maybe it's that I don't know HOW to feel anymore. I question every… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you… — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If I didn't drain the sorrow, you would have made me suffer a life of no love anyway. — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ” — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Grief was an ocean. We were sitting in the middle of it on makeshift life rafts, never knowing if we’d make it… — Lilliana Anderson Copy Share Image
To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Once you have walked down the grief path, what you have gained on your journey may turn into invaluable advice for someone… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image