“You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Wearing this mask, you look at my face and see a smile but underneath is sorrow. — Kristina Fedolfi Copy Share Image
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.” — Donovan Copy Share Image
“Your lost Joseph will return to Canaan, do not grieve. This house of sorrows will become a garden, do not grieve.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
“When you lose the person that's most important to you, it can feel like your life's over and all you can do… — Sparkling Amethyst Copy Share Image
“And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
“Grief mixed with shock is such a difficult state to be in; it's hard even to describe it. On the one hand,… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that… — Kahlil Gibrán Copy Share Image
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
“We trust that acknowledging and releasing grief, pain and other unmentionable feelings is a most healing and blessed function, since it allows… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“It is letting go of the dream, the idea / concept, of the relationship that causes the most grief in every relationship… — Robert Burney Copy Share Image
“I initially discovered hiraeth on social media, and it made me suck in my breath as something stirred deep within me. It's… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
