“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .” — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
“We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger.” — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“cry,child,for those without tears have a grief which never ends."-mexican saying” — Luiz J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns,… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Because I was alone, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning…My emotions were similarly amplified: the highs were higher; the periods of… — Jon Krakaur Copy Share Image
“She shoved open her car door and moved to get out. Instead she dropped her head to the steering wheel. She tried… — Ann Wertz Garvin Copy Share Image
“All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My encounter with desperation while witnessing the death of a precious child changed me, teaching me that although we will have sad… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the… — Linda Austin Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
After awhile you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The pain of heartache often comes in unpredictable episodes of intense pain that come and go. These episodes are called grief “spasms”—you… — Susan J. Elliott Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not the absence of company, it is grief over that absence.” — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
