“I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.” — Seré Prince Halverson Copy Share Image
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage. — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . .… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen’s mirror would definitely say it was… — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
“When I became an imprint of my surroundings, I began to disappear into the tragedy of acceptance.” — Damond Jiniya Copy Share Image
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house,… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault,… — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“We needn’t feel forced or pushed to move on before we’re ready. Letting go of the way we hoped things would be… — Robin L. Smith Copy Share Image
“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that we can be whole without that person or thing… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore. I was just me. I was whole again. I was… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough. — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.” — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“Though life has fated that we never cross paths again, don’t ever feel alone. For we are parallel …. and I will… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?' I am made of memories. 'Speak, then.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“My father does not deserve my sorrow, only relief. He can no longer torment anyone.” — Emily R. King Copy Share Image
“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
