Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on… — Steve Arterburn Copy Share Image
It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is… — Helen Lowrie Marshall Copy Share Image
“Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
“In twenty years you could say and do a lot you wish you hadn't. In twenty years you could store up a… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
“Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like… — Thomas Golden, Jr Copy Share Image
“My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign. I’m just not ready… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy. — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
“How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“A kiss…. ….. is just a kiss…. Until it’s all you reminisce. (Then the memory becomes your most treasured possession.)” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach… — Richard Rohr 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
“One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct? — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
“You weep, and weep, for nothing, so as not to laugh, and little by little . . . you begin to grieve.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
“Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
