“So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.” — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“When he wasn’t cutting the pitiful figure of a mourning widower, he was being a downright prick.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered.… — Rachel L. Schade Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth –… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“What is personal death? Asking this question and pausing to look inward - isn't personal death a concept? Isn't there a thought-and-picture… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
“I began praying for the health and safety of my boys before each one was born. Once a week for two years… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
Being alone is bearable, it's having a constant aching heart, thoughts of you tear me apart. Lay in bed remembering what you… — Wes E Copy Share Image
We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“So perhaps it was her grief I felt as I gazed on this child not mine, and not even much of a… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Skye shook her head at Jess, who kept nudging the ball towards her. She was too tired to keep throwing. She needed… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“I felt suffocated. And alone. More alone than ever. Every year, I ostentatiously crossed out of my address book any friend who'd… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
“I felt myself shrink to a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. I felt… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
“Thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth I have of… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Where there is grief there is no space for new love. For in fact grief is in itself a love that is… — Paraschiva Florescu Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
“In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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