“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and… — Hope Edelman 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
“We validate a dying that can be seen and understood. that we can grasp that we can smell. a dying that is… — Paraschiva Florescu Copy Share Image
He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the… — Mary-Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go… — David Toop Copy Share Image
“Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely… — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“In a way, it was the same as any normal break up. You took what was yours …. and I kept what… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the… — Wallace Stevens 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
