Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced… — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks 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
Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
When I am confronted with emotional pain, I try to allow myself the time to properly grieve. We are caring, emotional beings,… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“But here’s what grieving people wish others would understand: grief is incredibly, relentlessly lonely. It really makes a huge difference to be… — Nancy Guthrie Copy Share Image
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There’s only ever been one person I’ve looked at and thought… ‘I could quite easily spend the entire rest of my life… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be… — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Copy Share Image
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing.… — Arthur Golden 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
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
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
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 felt so weird, to be on the other side, where you were the one expected to offer condolences, not receive them.… — Sarah Dessen 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
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold… — Aesop 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
“Most people in our culture deny their grief. A few days or weeks to feel sad is considered socially acceptable, and then… — Laurie McConnachie Copy Share Image
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid… — Samuel Johnson 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
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
My wife of 57 years was buried today beside our son, who died in 1941 as a result of a truck accident… — Terry Kay Copy Share Image
