In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it… — Muhammad al-Baqir Copy Share Image
Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow. — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff. — William Topaz McGonagall Copy Share Image
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had… — David Toop Copy Share Image
We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow.… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
“Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your… — Phillip Brooks Copy Share Image
“I turned to face Audrey, and everything I loved was right there in her eyes, the memories tangible: the schooldays and sleepovers,… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Merciful God, comfort and heal all those who suffer in body, mind, or spirit; give them courage and hope in their troubles,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“People come and go from our lives all the time. It's not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making… — Sue Fitzmaurice Copy Share Image
“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...” — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
