Maybe heartache was more normal than the absence of it.

~ Jennifer Handford

Jennifer Handford Grief Heartache

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Angry Faint Grief Jane Austen Love And Friendship Mad Run Mad Satire Shriek

In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Aloneness Grief Rebirth Resurrection Zombies

The ocean-blue bowl won’t refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back from the gaping earth-wounds.There will still come water, chill wind and happy goosebumps, and in the utmost corners of oaks, leaves laughing.

~ Bryana Johnson

Bryana Johnson Free Verse Grief Nature Nevertheless Come Autumn Poetry

The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.

~ Alden Bell

Alden Bell Grief Loneliness Zombies

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

~ Michael Perry

Michael Perry Grief Truth

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it – You see it does not vex me in the least; though perhaps I may suffer most from it after all; for I shall not only be obliged to eat up all the Victuals I have dressed already, but must if Henry should recover (which however is not very likely) dress as much for you again; or should he die (as I suppose he will) I shall still have to prepare a Dinner for you whenever you marry any one else. So you see that tho perhaps for the present it may afflict you to think of Henry’s sufferings, yet I dare say he’ll die soon and then his pain will be over and you will be easy, whereas my Trouble will last much longer for work as hard as I may, I am certain that the pantry cannot be cleared in less than a fortnight

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Comfort Cooking Crying Food Grief Jane Austen Love And Friendship Marriage Minimizing Satire

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)

~ Neena Verma

Neena Verma Celebration Cry Grace Grief Lament Love Woe Wonder

We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can have a lot to say about what suffering does to us, and what sort of people we become because of it. Pain makes some people bitter and envious. It makes others sensitive and compassionate. It is the result, not the cause, of pain that makes some experiences of pain meaningful and others empty and destructive.

~ Harold S. Kushner

Harold S. Kushner Grief Loss Suffering Tragedy

When people told me I was so strong for surviving my daughter’s death, I wanted to scream. But the truth is that deep inside we are far more resilient, brave, and incredibly strong for having survived at all. So scream, be brave, and embrace your power. It will become your biggest asset.

~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Lynda Cheldelin Fell Brave Grief Healing Hope

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

~ Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert Morning Grief Night

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

~ James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey Great Grief People

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

~ Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan Beauty Support Grief

Grief is the price we pay for love.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

Queen Elizabeth Ii Sympathy Grief Price

A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

~ Nancy Gibbs

Nancy Gibbs Good Joy Grief

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

~ Simon Van Booy

Simon Van Booy Grief Doors Way

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

~ James Wolcott

James Wolcott America Grief King

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Grief Grace Feelings

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

~ Joel Osteen

Joel Osteen Faith God Grief

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

~ James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell Joy Grief Know

Time takes away the grief of men.

~ Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Time Men Grief

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

~ Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson Age Heart Grief

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

~ Patti Davis

Patti Davis Life Grief You

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

~ Alysia Reiner

Alysia Reiner Life Grief Moment

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

~ Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch Love Grief Me

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

~ Ciaran Hinds

Ciaran Hinds Experience Grief Yourself

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero Friendship Joy Grief

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Sympathy Grief Mind

The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

~ Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty Home Grief Problem

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

~ Chanakya

Chanakya Happy Fear Grief

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Depression Anger Grief

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Knowledge God Grief

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

~ Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson Sympathy Grief You

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

~ Patti Smith

Patti Smith Grief Giving Lost

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

~ Horace Mann

Horace Mann Heart Grief Child

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

~ Pliny The Elder

Pliny The Elder Grief Limits Know

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

~ Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov Compassion Powerful Grief

Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.

~ Frank Deford

Frank Deford Good Science Grief

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

~ Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe Patriotism War Grief

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

~ Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves Grief Changes Shape
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