Accommodate Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But…

— David Rieff

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

— Alexander Smith

“We are so blind that we know neither when to mourn, nor when to rejoice; our mirth and our sadness are nearly always false.”

— Montesquieu

“Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes…

— Patricia Hickman

Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to…

— George W. Bush

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and…

— Joan Didion

“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself…

— Seneca

“Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory.…

— Lindsay Hill

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

— Dante Alighieri