Capable Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

— Louise J. Kaplan

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

— Richard Harris

In life, grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it no shortcuts and no…

— Anonymous

“Remember you are water. Of course you leave salt trails. Of course you are crying. Flow. P.S. If there happens to be a multitude…

— Adrienne Maree Brown

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

— Laura van den Berg

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

— Orson Scott Card

“The midwife blinked back her own tears. "I don't know But these will be difficult days for your family. The midwife was right: the…

— Michelle Moran

Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor…

— Gerald May

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

— Paul Gerhardt

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our…

— William Wycherley

Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things…

— Aleksandra Mir

I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning.

— Rudy Espinoza