“...People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane...” — R. Elizabeth Carpenter Copy Share Image
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. — Solomon Copy Share Image
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think. — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono Copy Share Image
“There's grief and then there's the loneliness of grief. The way it's just yours and yours alone.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Through the twists and turns, ups and downs, in happiness and in sorrow, life teaches us... TO LIVE! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.” — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do,… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“...she stood back and wiped the sweat-sting from her eyes. The air was clean. Her hands brown with dirt. Pride surged through… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all… — Catherine Burns Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living… — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe… — Amber Garibay Copy Share Image
“I buckle over, sobbing, my head resting against the hard shower tiles. I remember crying like this when Sukey died, the tears… — Hilary T. Smith Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I remember at that time I went to the hairdresser's. I did this regularly, but I remember that visit for two particular… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“Let us always praise His name - in times of joy, in times of tribulation, in times of sorrow, in times of… — Pauline Creeden Copy Share Image
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
“He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Many people suffer great miseries but if you ask them in front of others, 'you went through great difficulty, didn't you?', then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“When the source of all my meaning came to die, so did the meaning of death.” — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
