“...and I felt years, cares, sorrows, thousands of gray scales peeling off me...” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate… — Yi Mun-yol Copy Share Image
There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment. — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Which ensures that life gets lived in miniature. In lieu of the large feelings—sorrow, fury, joy—I had their junior counterparts—anxiety, irritation, excitement.… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“She's breaking inside, the fragile pieces coming away with the water as it pours down on her. Her sorrow is so tangible,… — Ker Dukey Copy Share Image
“And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever,… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the… — Paula Wall Copy Share Image
“Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed… — Kurban Said 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
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Journeying through grief is one of the most "normal human" experiences you can have. Nevertheless, all too frequently the heartbroken seem to… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“I am a wife, mother, and friend, and soon to be grandmother, I still feel, understand, and am worthy of the love… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
“It is often said that there should be no death or grief in children's stories. It is not wise to dwell on… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my "mind's… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes; I wonder if It weighs like Mine, Or has an Easier size.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“The sea is made of salt tears we say and the waves are made of the griefs of men but I am… — Rachel Neumeier Copy Share Image
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.” — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
“True joy is never the enemy of godly grief. Joy is what trains and equips us to bear it.” — Hannah K. Grieser Copy Share Image
“My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, but though you're still with me, I've been alone all along. — Evanescence Copy Share Image
I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.” — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
When you look at an obstacle, but see opportunity instead, you become a powerful source that transforms grief into greatness. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of… — Darien Gee Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
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