I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I had started trying—it for the first time, really—it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast.… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source;… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Shhh, Eena, it’s going to be okay. I promise, you’ll get through this.” She didn’t fight him, but grabbed onto his shirt,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if… — Jenna Brooks Copy Share Image
“ Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I… — Alexandra Latos Copy Share Image
“The wave of pure outrage blindsided me. I shouldn't be here, I thought. This is utterly fucked up. I should have been… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I hear the word in the hall over and over again. Suicide. Suicide. Suicide. Did he or didn’t he? Everyone’s got a… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“An endless scream pierced the frigid night air and shook the world with its rage and sorrow. The aged stone and brick… — Ava Zavora Copy Share Image
When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
“He gives her a lump of grief that has hardened at the bottom of the canvas pocket at his waist. He gives… — Tina May Hall Copy Share Image
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In time of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“She held his hand tightly, as the life support system was removed. Her stomach contracted, she felt like she was being squeezed… — Kirthi Jayakumar Copy Share Image
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my… — John Balkh Copy Share Image
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate… — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
“When people told me I was so strong for surviving my daughter’s death, I wanted to scream. But the truth is that… — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
“Grief never goes away. It just changes. At first it's like molten-hot lava dripping from your heart and hollowing you from the… — Tyrell Johnson Copy Share Image
Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
We've all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief: denial, anger, bagaining, depression and acceptance. By contrats, I realized, happiness… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image