“My heart broke when he died, split in half and fell down into my stomach or somewhere deep and muddy, and I'm… — Jen Violi Copy Share Image
I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
And I don’t want his body touching something I wear. He’ll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You’re four… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Andromache: See, I've stopped crying. I won't cry ever again, I promise you. Helen: Don't promise that. Never promise that. Tears are… — Adele Geras Copy Share Image
Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired… — Robert Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm.… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“She soon learned that to survive atrocity is to be made an honorary consul to a republic of pain. There existed unspoken… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
People do not like the tragic side of life. They deny pain and suffering as a facet of life. Even when someone… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn't appreciated… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's a water cycle. Water never goes away. It never dies or is destroyed. It just changed from form to form in… — Jeff Zentmer Copy Share Image
A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you.… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The… — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“Why is grief, when inspired by certain types of loss, considered something to surmount, to get over, while when inspired by other… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight… — Rochelle Maya Callen Copy Share Image
“A home is not a place. It’s not a country or a town or a building or possession. Home is with the… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“all theories like cliches shot to hell, all these small faces looking up beautiful and believing; I wish to weep but sorrow… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief.… — Mona Caird Copy Share Image
“It was a dark day indeed when I was forced to admit that I was about as “special” and “unique” as a… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the night there were cries of grief. With nothing better to do, Billy shuffled in their direction. He wondered what… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive,… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a… — Lily James Copy Share Image
