Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“Burst the Anguish Within! Allow it to pierce every nerve deep in your skin.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-she had reached… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I still think of you every day. But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
“Grief held on. It would not let go of loss, because to do that was to accept it. I told that to… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than… — Kristen Hannah Copy Share Image
“The sensuality of her grief, thawing. Her power coming into focus, still so chaotic inside her. I love the way she splurged… — Laurie Perez Copy Share Image
I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when… — Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith Copy Share Image
Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“This state of grief was something I now understood. It's something that walks with you every day. Would there be sunny days… — Pam K. McCarty Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He became so gloomy that she asked him, at last, if he was worried about anything. He assured her, instantly, that he… — Margaret Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Freud was fascinated with depression and focused on the issue that we began with—why is it that most of us can have… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Do I matter? Can I, Even now, Especially now, Make a difference? I have struggled with this, All of my days, For… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
