...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Life is just one long day separated into sections by sleep. Life never stops happening until you are dead. So whatever happens-love,… — Sunshine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and pain come in somber colors with blackened curtains that cover windows of opportunity. This weighted down worry and heartache can… — Tekoa Manning Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a… — David Rieff Copy Share Image
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside… — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
“Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman’s belongings. Began the day by looking at her photographs. A cruel mourning begins again (but had never… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“How to read this book: Even after I was told my father was dead, I believed (I still believe) that I could… — Christopher Boucher Copy Share Image
At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“ Your lingering presence erodes me. Heartbeat by heartbeat. Cell by aging cell. Washing away any sense of self I ever had.… — S.A. McAuley Copy Share Image
“I’ve often wondered, even to this day, why during painful times some people seem to step away from themselves and make decisions… — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Her death didn’t feel real yet. Nona stood there, casting no shadow, and found she could feel nothing for her friend. Some… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Grief is lonely, no matter how many other people feel it. They are different, each one, because we’ve lost different people, different… — Nora McInerny Purmort Copy Share Image
“Filling ourselves and living with the energy of love feels wonderful. And because this energy resonates at a high vibrational level, it… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“Suffering is important. It teaches so much in a little bit of time. In much wisdom there is much grief. And those… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably,… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
“But who knows how long a grief may last? Isn't it possible that, even thirty or forty years after the death of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to ones heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I plucked one feather from my hood and left it on his forehead, for, his, head. For a souvenir, for a warning,… — Max Porter Copy Share Image
“And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“This is my story. Death tried to kill it; Grief tried to drown it; Pride tried to erase it; Pain tried to… — Sandi Morgan Denkers Copy Share Image
“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and… — Jonathan Yanez Copy Share Image
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“I believe there is no heaven or hell. There are no devils or angels. No afterlife or salvation. My soul won't be… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a death in the family; to pull back all the family members together again, sorrow is a special human… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“I had met death before, in different forms--I knew quite well the pattern of my grieving. First came shock, and then tears,… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
“The two of us were bound together by the thread of grief, but it wasn't just our mutual losses that united us.… — Brenda Rothert Copy Share Image
