“You weep, and weep, for nothing, so as not to laugh, and little by little . . . you begin to grieve.” — Samuel Beckett 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
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
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
“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
“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
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. — Mike Mills 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
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more… — Franz Kafka 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
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
You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — George R. R. Martin 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
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 dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People… — Susan Dormady Eisenberg Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“Still, as everyone I know who has been through tragedy acknowledges with sadness, there are friends who don't come through as you… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“This is how the soul heals. it thaws out bit by bit, the way the ground warms after a hard winter. you… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an… — Sufjan Stevens 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
“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
Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense… — Karen Katafiasz 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
A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore. I was just me. I was whole again. I was… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Though life has fated that we never cross paths again, don’t ever feel alone. For we are parallel …. and I will… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
