“This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“Life’s problems cannot be resolved if they are buried. We bury what is finished; obsolete. We bury what we cannot restore. Grief… — K.M. Golland Copy Share Image
“You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy]… — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image
This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Grief is a profound part of recovery and new life. Tears of regrets, remorse and despair waters the roots of love and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it… — Beth Ann Fennelly Copy Share Image
“We move out over the ocean, and …I am looking straight down at the waves underneath me. The mid-morning sun is low… — Shawn Klomparens Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that if everyone could be there just once to see for themselves what white phosphorous does to… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“Here, supposing that neither Harry Perkins nor the servants nor some outsider called ‘X’ had killed Stephen Anthony, was a murderer. He… — Richard Lockridge Copy Share Image
When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will,… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
“You die. You get old and die. Your anger curdles, your grief dries, your talent fades on the page. Your cells metastasise… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“Rose," said my mother. For once in my life, she sounded unsure about herself. Scared, maybe. "Mia said you wanted to see… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My dearest daughter, I see your loneliness and fear. I know your hurt and your heartaches. In a special bottle I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When she dies, you are not at first surprised. Part of love is preparing for death. You feel confirmed in your love… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But the thing about grief is that it doesnt have a timescale. So I can sit here today and say to you… — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world… — Seamus Heaney 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
“It doesn’t take long, working homicide, to discover that most people suffering from grief can’t answer that question without telling a lie… — Tyler Dilts 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
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
“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
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Take my hand. Come away from me... I shall lead you away from your hurt, pain, sadness; grief. I will lead you… — Ellia_renee Copy Share Image
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image