“The heart can hold joy the same time as sorrow. Embrace the joy.” — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
“baby, too much work to do for our ocean of grief to pull us under” — Emma Shaw Crane Copy Share Image
“Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.” — Helen Maryles Shankman Copy Share Image
“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God… — Joseph M. Scriven Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.” — Kristen Hope Mazzola Copy Share Image
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“Sing, for it may be that your thoughts have plucked Some medicable herb to make our grief Less bitter.” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Underneath my grief that day a resolution was hardening into cement: I would never, ever again create something thinking that I would… — Marcia Tucker Copy Share Image
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Oh, to be the spitting image of her father, or a younger version of her mother. She longed to carry those pieces… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a number of men in fetters, and all condemned to death, some of whom are executed each day in… — Balise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
“As tiny silver flakes drifted down to settle on our bodies---Both the living and the dead---I thought perhaps the moon had hidden… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“[S]ociety often tends to make those of us in grief feel shame and embarrassment about our feelings of grief. "Shame can be… — Alan D. Wolfelt Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“grieving, when we miss our loved ones even more than usual. How can you celebrate togetherness when there is none? When you… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
“She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? ... It was both small and bright, and she… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“...Death often likes to arrive unnoticed. Unheralded. Like a guest who is unfashionably early for a party, Death likes to slip in… — Kathy E. Magliato Copy Share Image
In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“My mind is, to use a disgustingly obvious simile, like a wastebasket full of waste paper; bits of hair, and rotting apple… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
![“[S]ociety often tends to make those of us in grief feel shame and embarrassment about our feelings of grief. "Shame can be described as feeling that something you are doing is bad. And you may feel that if you mourn, then you should be ashamed. If you are perceived as 'doing well' with your grief…” quote by Alan D. Wolfelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/232/alan-d-wolfelt-77279_grief_s-ociety-often-tends-to-make-those-of-us_1331641.jpg)
