“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
“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
“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
“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
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“But when something like Angelina's murder happens," the doctor told him (Decker), "it's human nature to assume a bunker mentality. Let's shore… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Funerals, in fact, are one of the most powerful examples of collective pain. They feature in a surprising finding from my research… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have arrived at the age of grief. Others arrive there… — Jane Smiley 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
...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
“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
“The only way past the pain is through it. You can't escape it. You can't ignore it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You break my heart, you left me, you almost take my pride, I cry for you, you made me see many thing… — JUNIORJK Copy Share Image
“You have both contested well: the one is forced by his sorrow to lament, the other by the plaintiff’s attack to tell… — Johannes Von Saaz Copy Share Image
“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance,… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
“And it gets old to everyone around you. People get tired of you bringing it up. People get burdened by your sadness.… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“Maybe his grief was like her wounded arm. Slowly healing. Gradually becoming less consuming as life delivered other worries and other joys.… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Many people tried comforting us with words. But there are no consoling words! I really just wanted people to be quiet. I… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
“The pain of your loss will return. Less, but still considerable. I know you've worked hard to release it, but it can… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Adieu, Love. Adieu, Passion. Adieu, Romance. Adieu, Joy. Surely the sweetest sorrow of them all. I shall miss your soft kiss, your… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“You need to keep those memories close; you need to celebrate the child who saved spiders and made keen observations and had… — Janis Thomas Copy Share Image
