“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“it is your life and you have to live your life as you want but you must have courage to pay by… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“Like so many others my story begins with that same old line…. ‘So anyway, there was this guy….’ Until one day…. there… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“Everyone standing on the road as the body went past had been so utterly silent, so still. There was no sound or… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“I remember my wife in white. I remember her walking toward me on our wedding day, a bouquet of red flowers in… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes That witnessed huge affliction… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The one so loved that a single lyre raised more lament than lamenting women ever did; and that from the lament a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I really don't know who has it worse: The heartbreaker who guiltily draws the line-- The heartbroken convinced they are cursed-- Or… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In sorrow, we rise I thirst for the tears that you wept all night so that even in sorrow, we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she looked back upon the past,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“What was a siren but a call to your neighbors, a cry that would let them know that grief of one sort… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
“I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
Life's like a piano. The pleasures are the white keys and the sorrows are the black keys. In the end, they work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t move. I couldn’t feel and I was numb. I sat there until it was dark. I could see shadows and… — M. Robinson Copy Share Image
“There are sorrows, that is true.' Arconn said thoughtfully. 'We lose those who are close to us, and we are sad when… — M. L. Forman Copy Share Image
Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we… — Merrill J. Bateman Copy Share Image
It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined.… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
“I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“crying by this time, but so was I, and I wasn’t ashamed. Grief had a way of sneaking up on a person.… — Linda Barrett Copy Share Image
“Alive to the loving past She conjures her own. Nothing is wholly lost— Sun on the stone. And lilacs in their splendor… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Maybe his grief was like her wounded arm. Slowly healing. Gradually becoming les consuming as life delivered other worries and other joys.… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
