For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what looks like insensitivity is a mask. A strong face someone puts on. Grief makes you feel vulnerable. And there are… — L.T. Vargus Copy Share Image
“How many times did we pass each other before we met? If only I’d known…. I would have searched for you endlessly.… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I could be the faultless victim of a freak accident and be knocked from the game while still on the ascendant. Becoming… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We must remind ourselves at times that healing grief, guilt, severe wounds, and tattered relationships take time to heal and we need… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“He carried more grief than she could imagine, yet lived life with such joy it spread to everyone around him. Despite that… — Julie E. Czerneda Copy Share Image
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. There's no asteroid this time, only human behavior,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“We're not going to make it," I said. The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said… — Brian Keene Copy Share Image
Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“I must acknowledge that though his adoption embodies graciousness, it is also a reminder this world is not as it should be.… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
“Grief takes about a year,” Mrs. Kelly once told a young mother who had lost her son. “You have to get through… — Patricia Harman Copy Share Image
“I made so many promises when I arrived here. Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a… — Tehereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I am late,' she said, 'I know that I am late. So many little things have to be done when you are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further,… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there… — Carole Keeton Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, it seemed, in the tress and water and sky, a great worldwide sadness came pressing down on me, a crushing sorrow,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“I felt it was for this I had come: to wake at dawn on a hillside and look out on a world… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
First of all, a lot of people, a lot of women and men, have lost their children. I'm not the only one.… — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Saving You The darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that… — Nessa Rapoport Copy Share Image
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“The first thing to know is that grief is not a straight line. It doesn’t happen in “stages,” as is commonly thought;… — Susan J. Elliott Copy Share Image
“You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“I was naked and alone, enduring the flop sweat attack of my life. It figured. It was usually the times I felt… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes from the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have… — George Elliot Copy Share Image
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
