“many people who suffer difficult losses exhibit a natural resilience. They hurt deeply, but the hurt passes, and relatively soon after the… — George A. Bonanno Copy Share Image
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“She had no tears this morning. She had wept them all away last night, and now she felt that dry-eyed morning misery,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maman’s death: perhaps it is the one thing in my life that I have not responded to neurotically. My grief has not… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Gonzo's father told his son to grieve without reservation or embarrassment until he could grieve solemnly and inwardly, and then finally to… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
“There was no question that it was a necessary divorce, but that didn’t make it less painful. You don’t think it will… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are, life is desperately hard sometimes. People we love die, and the longer we live, the more we… — Allyson Dinneen Copy Share Image
“You cannot die from grief, though it feels like you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes you chest aches… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
Said l loved you but l lied... Like the nocturnal's horizons dull and rancid to glow, like nightingale's fluttered wings blown by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm.… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“I saw sadness when I looked at what was left of them. The demigods who had once controlled the heavens had been… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“She soon learned that to survive atrocity is to be made an honorary consul to a republic of pain. There existed unspoken… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper 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
“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
“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
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is… — Aldous Huxley 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
Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
“My grief is my castle, which like an eagle's nest is built high up on the mountain peaks among the clouds; nothing… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You are out of my sight, but you will never be out of my heart, I may not see your face, but… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“a person once said… there comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create… — Jacqueline Kennedy Copy Share Image
You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. This year for the first time since I was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried. Survival in… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“No, it really isn't, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn't fair.… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
