As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed But all the past still yet to come…” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve. — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .” — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness? — Lady Flora Hastings Copy Share Image
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but… — Bailey Vincent Copy Share Image
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a… — Candy Lightner Copy Share Image
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“They had become muffled and distant then anyway. This happened in those first days after the wave. I couldn't find their faces,… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Recently, two young boys in the United States gunned down classmates at an elementary school. Less than twenty-four hours after the incident,… — Oriah Mountain Dreamer 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
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
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
