In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Healing trauma involves tears. The tears release our pain. The tears are part of our recovery. My friend, please let your tears… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.' — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the sorrow deep inside can slowly kill as surely as disease or hunger.” — Rosanne Bittner Copy Share Image
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“...where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty… — Kelsey Sutton Copy Share Image
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“I know part of my sorrow is just disguised self-pity, I needed that exchange and I worry how I'll cope without it… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“The thought of leaving her alone haunted me. The sadness was suffocating me and twisting my chest and my heart and I… — Bernadette Sutherland Copy Share Image
“Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I just want to go home. See my wife, play with my girls. I just want to matter again. When will this… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“needed mothering. Grief and distance bound the wound, perfecting the bond” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.” — Charmaine Smith Ladd Copy Share Image
“Stay away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow.” — Dennis E. Adonis Copy Share Image
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image