“ The dead do not become stars or ghosts. in fact, they are hardly undone. Soon their randomly dispersed parts reappear one… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But around her, the air was sad, somehow. And behind the smile in her eyes, the Grief was a fresh, shining blue.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Before they can grin there fake smiles, I mumble something about a toilet, laugh a second too late at some joke, and… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
“I do not mean the difficulty. I do not mean the sex. I mean there are too many failings. Not enough hope.… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Malphas surveyed the women's bodies with utter disgust and sorrow until he realized Tabitha was still alive. He knelt by her side… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Witness, Heaven, how often I lie down in my bed with a wish, and even a hope, that I may never awaken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“I was feeling everything much too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. I sat on… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body,… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
“There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a… — Ibi Kaslik Copy Share Image
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any… — Kesha Copy Share Image
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“The sharp edge of grief might dull with time, but it never truly went away. The cruel blade was always in your… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
“I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn’t get out of bed. Just… — Brenda Rothert Copy Share Image
When you are upset if you rest your head on the shoulder of your beloved ones and hold their hands, in a… — Bhar Gavi Copy Share Image
“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they… — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The ocean-blue bowl won’t refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back from the gaping earth-wounds. There will still come water, chill wind… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
