Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. — Alfred de Musset 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
Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I'm not heart-breaking sorrow, you have broken your own home: I am surprised that — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“To lie sleepless with pain at night, or to wake every morning and feel the return of grief, yet to get up… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life. — Edgar Morin Copy Share Image
“Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Love and loss coincide, I suppose. Love teaches us how to live with, and loss forces us to live without. We love… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“(The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Grief,” he said, “is carnivorous. It feeds whether you’re awake or not, whether you fight it or you don’t. Much like cancer.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Hate Together With love, joy Together with sorrow, Cry Together With Laughter, Life Together With Death, and Lose Together With Gets, Something… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“It's my own deep-rooted feeling that our souls never truly die and that life continues in some way. I know I need… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
I saw the sorrow in Daddy's eyes I listened to the sound of Mommy's sighs In my sister, I saw what lingered… — Guardian Copy Share Image
“It was the first time I discovered that some girls actually sneak out of the house during slumber parties and meet up… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Never again the music blown as brightly Off of my heart as foam blown off a wave; Never again the melody that… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Witness, Heaven, how often I lie down in my bed with a wish, and even a hope, that I may never awaken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy. — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
