“SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.” — John Zea Copy Share Image
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.” — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
“What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“when people suffer terrible losses they need to have an opportunity to talk about them. Being isolated with your sorrow is such… — Susie Kelly Copy Share Image
“The days elude them, but they are the ones who witness the sorrows of the night. The wretched, gloomy nights. How they… — Sanchit Gupta Copy Share Image
“And a real , undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I know I get a lot of grief about some of the things I've said about Coach Saban, but working under him… — Lane Kiffin Copy Share Image
“Grief is the tribute we pay the dead," she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. "But they don't ask more than we… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“You cannot go around in grief and panic every day; people will not let you, they will coax you with tea and… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Personally, I want to die in dignity but my passing celebrated jollity. I've told my executors that I want a stand up… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Why don't you see me? Why don't you hear me? Why don't you feel me? Why won't you talk to me? Why… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Despair can come from deep grief, but it can also be a defense against the risks of bitter disappointment and shattering heartbreak.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.” — Helen Maryles Shankman Copy Share Image
“baby, too much work to do for our ocean of grief to pull us under” — Emma Shaw Crane Copy Share Image
“The heart can hold joy the same time as sorrow. Embrace the joy.” — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
![“You cannot go around in grief and panic every day; people will not let you, they will coax you with tea and tell you to move on, bake cakes and paint walls. [...] So what you do is you let them coax you. You bake the cake and paint the wall and smile; you buy a new freezer as if you now had a plan…” quote by Andrew Sean Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/andrew-sean-greer-2689_early-morning_you-cannot-go-around-in-grief-and-panic_647304.png)
