“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
“I have felt the highest of Joys and I have felt the true pit of sorrow – all in just thirteen hours.” — C. David Murphy Copy Share Image
“In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in every parting there was some of the joy of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“But grief always hits hard and somehow lingers longer than exultation in your mind and heart,” — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this: I have a responsibility I need to fathom. I have a… — Michelle Dicinoski Copy Share Image
Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For in grief nothing ‘stays put,”’ C. S. Lewis writes. “One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“But I think it is so important to not rush the process of grief- & I do not mean moping & wallowing.… — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
“There’s only ever been one person I’ve looked at and thought… ‘I could quite easily spend the entire rest of my life… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Aron Moss wrote a wonderful article on this topic in which he explains, ”We don't really want answers, we don't want explanations,… — Aron Moss Copy Share Image
“The description of shock and grief hot so close to home: "but sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I wanted to cry from the frustration. The conclusion to my thoughts directed me to a dead end. There really was no… — R.J. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“Burial Cathy Linh Che There is the rain, the odor of fresh earth, and you, grandmother, in a box. I bury the… — Cathy Linh Che Copy Share Image
“And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
“The first is the sorrow and pain of (need) sickness; 5. The second, the massive burning and destruction of many cities; 6.… — Joseph B. Lumpkin Copy Share Image
“When you lose someone you love, there is a tear in the fabric of the universe. It's the scar you feel for,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“How the sadness is handled by the physician has a powerful impact on the medical care received by the patients. If the… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Grief isn’t an illness though, is it?’ Anna’s face crumples. ‘It’s not as if you get better , like you do with… — Louise Jensen Copy Share Image
“Apollo felt as if he glowed with grief, poisoned with mourning instead of radiation.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“That’s it. I’m asking you, I’m really asking you—how is it possible that we aren’t in a permanent state of mourning?” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.” — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another!… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.- -"And?" And it makes you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills. — Arnel Pineda Copy Share Image
He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved… — Nami Mun Copy Share Image
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“True, it's not over till it's over. And even when it's over, it just begins again.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. — Xenophon Copy Share Image
