“Grief was just the moment before you tied off the thread and began the next one. That was when you made your… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We have to believe that even the briefest of human connections can heal. Otherwise, life is unbearable. — Agate Nesaule Copy Share Image
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child’s math book.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood… — Unica Zürn Copy Share Image
“And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile… — Jennifer Ryan Copy Share Image
“Once, I’d been so afraid you would forget me. Now I knew you wouldn’t, but it didn’t make me feel any better.… — Nicola Maye Goldberg Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“The sounds of a man crying is a piteous noise, almost worse than an infant's cry. Babies are either hungry, sick or… — Samantha Hayes Copy Share Image
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“When the day of toil is done, When the race of life is run, Father, grant Thy wearied one Rest forevermore. When… — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the… — Hemley Boum Copy Share Image
“had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps;… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
“we were born for sorrow we were born for pain we were born for loss but we were also born to love… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
“I feel dangerously unbalanced...like choosing to be with you is a decision to never know gentleness again.” — Ivory Quinn Copy Share Image
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woods In sorrow, sorrow. Your hand, where is your hand? - In the… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Our parting was like a stalemate…. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still … that unshakable feeling… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“You can’t reject your sorrow, it always comes knocking when you least want it and it does bring enough reinforcements to wear… — Patrick Honovich Copy Share Image
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will… — Mizu Sahara Copy Share Image
“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I try to imagine myself without grief, without anger, but I cannot. "What remains?" "Hope," she says, smiling. "Hope remains.” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image