“In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.” — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“confusion captures my lover's pleasure. I won't give up. Sorrow lies hidden in the darkness as the zeal of light revolves around… — Elena Carpenter Copy Share Image
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? — William Blake Copy Share Image
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Before you judge me by my life my past or my character Walk in my shoes walk the path I have traveled… — Hamza Irshad Butt Copy Share Image
All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you… — P.A. Minyard Copy Share Image
The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
“If friendship were a matter of bookkeeping -- so much joy in one column, so much sorrow in the other -- everything… — Louise Andrews Kent Copy Share Image
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. No screams. No breaking glass.… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
“Burial Cathy Linh Che There is the rain, the odor of fresh earth, and you, grandmother, in a box. I bury the… — Cathy Linh Che Copy Share Image
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“Love Sorrow Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must take care of what has been given. Brush her hair, help… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I'd been drifting and in a very self-destructive bent ever since my mother died and as soon as I dealt with the… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
“How the sadness is handled by the physician has a powerful impact on the medical care received by the patients. If the… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
“There are some families in which, at 9:00 at night, the father starts to hit the wine and the mother the ironing,… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Love's boat has been shatteredagainst the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“They saw him as he was, a full man whose griefs and solaces and talents ran together.” — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life-but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
“When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If all I can feel is the very fraying edge of their grief, then I do not want to think how dark… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“She knew every word that had ever been spoken, but she could think of nothing to say that might ease his grief.” — Scott Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to spend any more time inside the mind of an economist. It was dark and disturbing.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nam acts like a balm that heals the wounded soul, wounded by sin, grief or distress in life.” — Ranbir Singh Copy Share Image
“I sometimes hold it half a sin to put in words the grief I feel; for words, like Nature, half reveal and… — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
