Words for a Heavy Heart

Grief is the price we pay for love.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.

Beneath anger there is often a deep sorrow asking to be held.

A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Pleasure and pain, heat and cold — they come and they go. They do not last. Bear them patiently.

Let not the eyes be dry when we have lost a friend, nor let them overflow. We may weep, but we must not wail.

Where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Speak to yourself as you would to a dear friend who is hurting.

Tears are words the heart cannot say any other way.

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

No mud, no lotus.

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

Sadness is not something to fix. It is something to keep company with.

Broken places, mended with gold, become part of the beauty.

Let go, or be dragged.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Let today be a soft day. You do not have to be cheerful for anyone.

What soap is to the body, tears are to the soul.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint.

Every tear waters something. One day, you may be surprised by what grows.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

The heaviness you feel is the weight of a great love.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

Jesus wept.

Putting a feeling into words can soften its grip.

You are not falling apart. You are feeling something enormous, and that is human.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

Writing about what hurts, even for a few minutes, can help the heart make sense of it.

Peace is not the absence of grief. It is a moment of rest within it.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is the price you pay for love.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow.

No feeling is final.

Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot.