If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“The pain is too much, the loss too great. There is no more before, and the after is too devastating. There isn’t… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“I’m tempted to walk away from this city and this life and this relationship that’s brought me the greatest feelings of joy… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
“Oh, my God,’ she said, between sobs. ‘Oh, my God.’ Olanna reached out often to squeeze her arm. The rawness of Edna’s… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound… — David Jason Copy Share Image
She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that the people who had a good relationship with the person who died often heal their grief… — Daniel G. Amen Copy Share Image
“You can ask why all day long if you want to. You can ask God why and your friends why and yourself… — Amy Matayo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of… — Setterfield Diane Copy Share Image
“Think about it. The selfsame well from which your laughter now rises was once filled with your tears. How else can it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“When I thought I felt better, grief shot its silver tip arrow at my heart to remind me that it was still… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like employment, active, indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And he had begun to feel then what he was feeling now: the complex and awful mental and physical interaction that is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home,… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of… — Azim Khamisa Copy Share Image
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Some truths only tragedy can teach. The first one I learned is that when people acknowledge your pain, they want your pain… — Tracy Deonn Copy Share Image
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
