“I got myself into a tangle. I tied myself in knots. I built and I built–heaven knows I have done that well.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design… — Homer Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love's good and evil send but sorrow? I've only seen… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Everyone goes through the ups and downs in life. It's how long we want to dwell in our downs depends on you.… — Raquel Chavez Copy Share Image
“I watch my loved ones weep with sorrow, death's silent torment of no tomorrow. I feel their hearts breaking, I sense their… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Just days after Joseph died, we sat down to eat dinner at the dining room table. We each sat there, choking down… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
“We kept walking, our shadows moving in shifting blobs over the ground. The sound of river rocks rattled under our feet. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears,… — Jaclyn A Wilson Copy Share Image
“Ill is it when good folk die.’ ‘Why, if they were good you need not mourn for them,’ said Skafloc glibly, ‘for… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your… — Roxana Robinson Copy Share Image
I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As I lie here wrapped up in this blanket, All I can think about is you. My friends are all here and… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief /… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one.… — John Harricharan Copy Share Image
“Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn’t know, myself. I never parted anyone.” He mimed ripping someone in… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
“My eye, but I've been all over that ground – years and years ago. I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
