“You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of love.… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“My pain builds like storm clouds―massive, dark, and heavy with teardrops. Moisture falls torrential as if my world is a violent, eternal… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The Aftermath When the fierce pure pleasure has clawed through, ripped open my tent of separateness, I lay in my lover's arms,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Besides, those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. As consolation can come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV,… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
Empty your own eyes (of tears) May you fill my eyes (instead, with tears).. O my love, if I get your sorrows,… — Hum Mar Jayenge (I'll Die Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "exactly what happened in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I was easier to shake off for you because you’re such a together person. I was just an extra layer on… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“There's something I have learned from what I've lived: lf you're to live something, live it to its fullest Your beloved should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“I started an Instagram account for the cats because I had too much love form them, scary amounts of weird obsessive love… — Courtney Gustafson Copy Share Image
“I was nearing a familiar point where I’ve descended through every level of madness and despair, and a certain calm takes over.… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“Tears blurred her vision as she leaned over him. His mouth was surely made for smiling. For laughing. For kissing. Grief welled… — Elena Greene Copy Share Image
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“This time, there are no tears. This time, there is only emptiness and I feel it set in the straight line of… — Kathleen DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Can a therapist make me not want to get pregnant? Can a therapist undo the trouble with my eggs, my hormones, and… — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
“I suffer from chronic nostalgia. Looking back makes me dizzy, queasy, and I yearn for it, ache for it. I want it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the darkness of loss, I found light. Admittedly, in those first weeks, it might have been but a… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“What was I going to do? The choices seemed basic and slim: Die. Exist. Live. I wanted to die, but with two… — Sukey Forbes Copy Share Image
I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm.… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“I’m going to go back and stop your son from killing her.” The queen’s face fell. For a moment, she looked as… — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
“Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Several of my clients, students, and readers have come to realize that they spent all their adult lives in relationships in which… — Susan J. Elliott Copy Share Image
“It’s not okay,” I tell her. This gets her attention; it’s not what she was expecting. “You don’t have to be okay.”… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“What Karen wants to do - needs to do - is cry, but she can't. Here, alone, when she could howl, beat… — Sarah Rayner Copy Share Image
“Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I just wake up each day in a slightly different place. Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
