“People in pain have enough problems without some well-meaning folks trying to short-circuit the grief process by declaring that everything is a… — Stephen Arterburn Copy Share Image
People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“When you and I feel empathy toward another being-be it human or one of our fellow creatures-it's tinged with the whiff of… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I can't stop thinking about what he felt like against my body, against my lips. I can't remember anything else, anything before… — sarah ockler Copy Share Image
“One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism. It’s impossible to explain what you… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Simos said, “Grief work must be shared. In sharing, however, there must be no impatience, censure or boredom with the repetition, because… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
“Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“...what happens when you return and find nothing but a hollowed shell, shingles and floor, walls and echoes and the light that… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“A bereavement club. You don’t choose to join it; it’s thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“Conner hadn’t liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he’d learned from his grandmother’s funeral that you have… — Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson Copy Share Image
“I don't recognise any of my emotions any more. There's no such thing as plain joy or grief. It's horror and relief… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“The Doug is just in mourning," he goes on. I avoid looking at Charlotte, in case she's on the verge of laughing,… — Catherine Rider Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“If you’re exposed to grief long enough, you can become addicted to it, you know. You begin to feel something’s missing whenever… — Akimitsu Takagi Copy Share Image
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
“I know you’re hurting, Taylor, but grief is clouding your judgement and you need to stay focused. If you attack her now,… — Maya Bode Copy Share Image
“Get cozy with your sorrow, Cuddle with your grief. Float with your fears, And melt within your anger. Stroll through your frustrations,… — NZ Kaminsky Copy Share Image
“I hate that I'm so numb and empty and disconnected from most of these people but even I can see worth in… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
Most people, when they lose their dads, they go through a period of mourning and grieving, and time begins to heal their… — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
“I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes like someone who died but stayed in his body. And sometimes I… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
“What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Embracing what is We’re conditioned to believe that painful feelings are “bad” and that pleasurable ones are “good.” It’s often easier—though not… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I don't even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms… — Vusi Mahlasela Copy Share Image
