Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow… — Alexa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“You go to bed different... tossing and turning is the norm... you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever… — Erica Stone Copy Share Image
But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
“You cannot die from grief, though it feels like you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes you chest aches… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Said l loved you but l lied... Like the nocturnal's horizons dull and rancid to glow, like nightingale's fluttered wings blown by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I saw sadness when I looked at what was left of them. The demigods who had once controlled the heavens had been… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear,… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“...but grief, he'd discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then 'moved on' (as the idiotic popular phrase would… — John Verdon Copy Share Image
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?'… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Love brings joy, it brings peace. It brings sadness and grief. It brings hope, it brings pain, it drives people insane. It… — Payton Udo Copy Share Image
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Small unhurt sorrows approach the hospitals and every day the dead take off a suit of blood. The architectures of frost, the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning… — Bible Copy Share Image
“And so all of these thoughts overwhelmed me when I woke from my hiding place in an alley the next morning, having… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
