“there is no grief more devastating than the grief for what could have been.” — Kaya McLaren Copy Share Image
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“paper Yedioth Ahronoth, Israelis saw soldiers as “their children”—the loss of a single one was occasion for a national outpouring of grief.… — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“An endless scream pierced the frigid night air and shook the world with its rage and sorrow. The aged stone and brick… — Ava Zavora Copy Share Image
When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
“He gives her a lump of grief that has hardened at the bottom of the canvas pocket at his waist. He gives… — Tina May Hall Copy Share Image
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Forgive me if my eyes see no more clearly than sea foam, please forgive that my form grows outward without license and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us,… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lisbon knew his parental and neighborly duty entailed putting the retainer in a Ziploc bag, calling the Kriegers, and telling them… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I lost someone I loved last week, someone I could count on, someone who meant the world to me. Some day people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O all you host of heaven!O Earth! waht else? And shall i couple hell? O Fie! Hold, hold, my heart And you,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
