Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. – Dirk Benedict
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. – James Russell Lowell
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. – Joseph Addison
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. – Keanu Reeves
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. – Marlo Thomas
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas More
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. – Washington Irving
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. – Ann Landers
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. – Joni Mitchell
Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. – Xenophon
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. – Jerome K. Jerome
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. – Anne Grant
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. – Dirk Benedict
The cure for sorrow is to learn something. – Barbara Sher
The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. – William R. Alger
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. – Ivan Turgenev
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. – Charles Henry Parkhurst
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. – James Martineau
