The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“They had become muffled and distant then anyway. This happened in those first days after the wave. I couldn't find their faces,… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your… — Beth Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for… — Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Copy Share Image
“How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“And time is a curious thing. Most of us only live for the time that lies right ahead of us. A few… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Seriously protecting yourself calls for the annihilation of ties with society, ties that most people need the way they need oxygen. You… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“Because God knows how miserable sorrow is, He comes down to help us. A God who is only transcendent cannot be empathetic.… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“On February 14, I received a telegram from Buenos Aires urging me to return home immediately; my father was "not at all… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“I wanted to turn on the table saw and rip a plank, but I had to drive to the airport. I had… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front… — Judith Tarr Copy Share Image
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is gonna take away the hurt and all the pain...well I've tried hiding… — Haylee Copy Share Image
“And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby.… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
My mom is my biggest support and critic. I've tried to be a good son, and I don't think I've given her… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
“I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“If you shouldn’t blame yourself for minor things you did or didn’t do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself… — Mark Rogerson Copy Share Image
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
People often say that time heals all wounds and take away all griefs. The truth is there are certain sorrows and pains… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Mother, why will you not wait for me, when I am trying to hold you, so that even in Hades with our… — Odysseus Copy Share Image
“If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must… — William Drummond 1623 Copy Share Image
“I didn’t belong to myself anymore. I had no mouth or eyes or thoughts. I didn’t need anything to change or be… — Sofie Laguna Copy Share Image
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Grief, my dear, is love's bittersweet encore—a poignant ovation to the bonds we held dear. As we mourn, we unravel the threads… — lifeispositive.com Copy Share Image
“If I were an alcoholic, a raging alcoholic, I would drink all my sorrows away. Sadness to me reminds me of Hemingway… — Abigail George Copy Share Image
Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's… — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
