“You may find that your God is strong enough to handle your anger, strong enough to feel compassion and love for you,… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 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
“Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other… — William Shakespeare 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
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have… — Rachel Naomi Remen 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
“Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in… — Tryon Edwards 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
Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity.… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Some just… — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes. Breathing your air…. touching your skin… … Saying goodbye….… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine… — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image