“Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.” — Suzanne Johnson Copy Share Image
There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To end sorrow one must understand the sadness. The pain must be felt, you need to be hurt to know it. — Naseem C Khan Copy Share Image
“Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will… — Homer Copy Share Image
“I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I had a hard time actually. It was an emotion that I couldn't relate to. I've never experienced grief and sadness but… — January Jones Copy Share Image
A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or… — Hafez 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
“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
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the… — Meghan O'Rourke 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
“Shhh, Eena, it’s going to be okay. I promise, you’ll get through this.” She didn’t fight him, but grabbed onto his shirt,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image