“There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. There's no asteroid this time, only human behavior,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“We're not going to make it," I said. The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said… — Brian Keene Copy Share Image
Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“I must acknowledge that though his adoption embodies graciousness, it is also a reminder this world is not as it should be.… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
“Grief takes about a year,” Mrs. Kelly once told a young mother who had lost her son. “You have to get through… — Patricia Harman Copy Share Image
“I made so many promises when I arrived here. Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a… — Tehereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I am late,' she said, 'I know that I am late. So many little things have to be done when you are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“Now there's something else I know. You might not think you're grieving, but grief comes in all sorts of ways. There's the… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“My only one! In your last letter "My head aches my heart is stunned!" you say. "If they hang you, if I… — Nazim Hikmet-Trans. By: Ahmad Poori Copy Share Image
“Then let me say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages,… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It was both terrible and oddly humbling to realize how easily physical discomfort could take control, expanding like poison gas until it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Hello grief Good morning grief insect that lurks in me and all night long lies in wait till I open my eye… — Odysseus Elytis 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
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima 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
“Simos said, “Grief work must be shared. In sharing, however, there must be no impatience, censure or boredom with the repetition, because… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
“Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The role played by stress in the causation of cancer is so great that it would not be an exaggeration to say… — Cass Ingram Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Moreover, I was beginning to experience something new - the fear of being alone. I had not been alone since I walked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We stare at broken clocks, The hands don't turn anymore. The days turn into nights, Empty hearts and empty places. The day… — Bring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
“She always used to suspect that the price for happiness, the price for enjoying the company of a person you loved, was… — Stephen Lovely 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
