“... Now I'll close my eyes with all my strength and fly away singing my baby girl's favorite song.” — John Zea Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Grief is not meant to be the soul's final destination; rather a resting place for the heart as we emerge onto the… — Karen A Anderson Copy Share Image
“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“Yet now, having held in grief and resentment, and evaded thinking too much about the episode that changed my life with the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I know that you’re sad right now. Grieve, but don’t hold onto it. Grief smothers out life. Let it go. Remember me… — Kim Holden Copy Share Image
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains.… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Now that she was gone, he did not know how to stand in this room right. He looked around at the familiar… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
“Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal -… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these… — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
“Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.” — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Poor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead — Perses Of Thebes Copy Share Image
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! There's not a sob in my chest. Dry hearted Peer Gynt I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Death does not discriminate; Some die old, some at 8. So remember during all your grief, our visit here is very brief. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are able to remove someone's sorrow even for a second , you recieve Life's blessings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If only I could bear all your sorrows for you! . . . Ah! you were so happy when you were little… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.” — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image