What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
So it is true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about comforting the people they leave behind.” — Rin Chupeco Copy Share Image
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you want to spend your life with happiness, listen the sorrow of unhappy people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“I had started trying—it for the first time, really—it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast.… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Jeanne’s sisters thought nothing of themselves… Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“. As it says in Ecclesiastes there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and… — Melanie Jackson Copy Share Image
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“I figured we really shouldn’t grieve for those who leave us for God. They’ve arrived at their destinations with lucky souls no… — Lynnda Pollio Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow. — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about my grief", said Anastasia. " So speak nothing of it.” — Claire Legrand Copy Share Image
“Man only notices his sorrows; he takes his happiness for granted.” — Dostoyevsky Fyodor Copy Share Image
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
