“You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement. — Allan Gregg Copy Share Image
May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care. — Rob Jackson Copy Share Image
When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same. — Tibullus Copy Share Image
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans -… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“September 11 Never a trial that He is not there. Never a burden that He does not bear. Never a sorrow that He… — Maggie Oman Shannon Copy Share Image
for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“How can we continue to have festivities after so many have died? (Rowena) The same way we managed to laugh while we… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
“A greater love was always with me. Guiding me and waiting for me to surrender myself so that the glory of grief… — Lindsa Gibson Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“This time, I heard a loud voice, literally heralding the reality that my daughter was never coming back. This time the depression… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed… — Diophantus Copy Share Image
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this,"… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Book-club night stopped abruptly when Caleb died. For almost a year and a half, as if by some type of tacit agreement,… — Francis L. Guenette Copy Share Image
When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
