Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end? — André Aciman Copy Share Image
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.” — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
“And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever,… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“She's breaking inside, the fragile pieces coming away with the water as it pours down on her. Her sorrow is so tangible,… — Ker Dukey Copy Share Image
“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth –… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Grief isn't something you can finish; it isn't something with a beginning and an end. Grief is something you absorb, something you… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world. One: I see a theme park where there are lots of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how well you are doing,” John complimented me just a few minutes after he mentioned the Christmas card.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I used to cry to the stars in the sky and begged them to have mercy on me cause I longed for… — Magdalena Ganowska Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person. — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep?… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.” — Aliki Copy Share Image
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
When a person can find sorrow behind ur smile, words behind ur silence, love behind ur anger; u can believe that person… — Norden Copy Share Image
Worry does not empty tomorrow of it's sorrow; it empties today of it's strength. -Corrie Ten Bloom- — Corrie Ten Bloom Copy Share Image
“My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.” — Tessa Gratton Copy Share Image
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Mad. Sad. Bad. Glad. Those were the “check-in” words Dr. Nerves recommended to help me identify if I was feeling anger, grief, shame,… — Renee Shafransky Copy Share Image
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image