The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When sorrow comes, then we do not welcome him | but it will definitely leave happily — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I write this quote to give myself a little hope. A little hope for tomorrow, a little hope to mask my sorrow. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Let roots grow where love was lost. Honor the life that they had, even though it was short.” — Laura C. Reden Copy Share Image
“Remember that mourning is both biblical and healing. Doing anything that might repress a person's need to grieve is both uncaring and… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.” — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“When you lose the person that's most important to you, it can feel like your life's over and all you can do… — Sparkling Amethyst Copy Share Image
“And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off… — MacDonald George Copy Share Image
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I looked at Mr. McCommon, his hands smothering his face, his chest flinching. He had no idea that grief was a reward.… — Nami Mun Copy Share Image
“When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will… — J. William Worden Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then… — Susan Casey Copy Share Image
“For so long, I’d wanted to hear those words fall from her lips. I’d just had no idea that in those words… — A.L. Jackson Copy Share Image
A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
“She'd been prepared for him to say he was too old, she must put away that sweet but impractical idea, they would… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
“Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play,” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image