Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.” — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But our grief was useless. Salt water, spilled on the ground, does not feed what grows there, but kills it.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there… — Kathleen Collins Copy Share Image
Life Is Like Mathematics. It's so complicated. But, all you have to do is,,, You just, [+] Add Friends, [-] Subtract Enemies,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
“Its said that all the lost souls that drown at sea are carried through the waves to rest in the Seas of… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One can't share happiness if not felt. One can't live happily if happiness is unexpressed. Through life contentment is searched for often… — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I have been blessed by those I cannot see, but whose presence I feel. I know that I am not alone and… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine… — Gibran Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“. . . early sorrow is frequently made up for by an X-ray vision of life which may be as much a… — Mansoor Nazeer Copy Share Image
“God! You'll do anything to avoid it.' Avoid what?' my mother said. The past,' Caroline said. 'Our past. I'm tired of acting… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“All sorrows in life stem from the lack of cake. If you had your own cake, you wouldn't bother trying to take… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“The whole encounter was surreal. No one had mentioned cancer. I hadn’t requested special treatment for Jacob. Yet he’d just nabbed a… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.” — Sonya Bateman Copy Share Image
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again. — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image