When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“... Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a… — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
“There is freedom in mourning as long as we are surrendering ourselves to be changed into the image of Christ in the… — Natasha Metzler Copy Share Image
The world is filled with trial and hardship. Its easy to become more worried and anxious every day as you face relationship… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“grief. We do and say strange things—sometimes bizarre things—when we are swallowed up in grief. No one should be hard on us… — R. T. Kendall Copy Share Image
“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two, which was… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a… — Dally Messenger Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. This seems so clearly the case with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The shadows of estrangement, anger and unforgiveness wear black hoodies for disguise and inhabit the darkest corners of your life, and the… — Roger Macdonald Andrew Copy Share Image
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“They were talking about things that didn’t matter a fig, not with the huge yawning grief burning a hole in his chest… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“They had decided to renovate their way out of the grief. Neither of them was sure it was a good plan, but… — Camilla Läckberg Copy Share Image
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Someday I will pick up shells of every colour And probably even rob the sea of its wonder Yet I won't find… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His eyes looked sad and cautious. I recognized the grief, but there seemed to be more to it, a depth beyond what… — Tyra Lynn Copy Share Image
“I guess even at nine I had a serious lack of spiritual purity, for my wounds soured within two days, and for… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I am not the first nor the last one to mourn, but this is my way of mourning. It’s my way to… — Bernard Jan Copy Share Image
Life starts with tears and goes on for years, with tears that don't fall but only burn in your eyes. And ulimately… — Vivaciousvicky Copy Share Image
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without… — Tamar Cohen Copy Share Image
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“To remember sometimes is a great sorrow, but when the remembering has been done, there comes afterwards a very curious peacefulness. Because… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make… — Stephanie Roberts Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
