Grief Quotes
Words for the weight of loss and the slow work of healing.
Several lines resist the idea of grief as something to conquer once, describing it instead as a shifting, day-to-day experience. Read more in our Healing quotes.
I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
Abortion, more than not, leaves women with an aftermath of grief, guilt, and emotional overload. In a lot of cases, this can last a lifetime.
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Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day.
Depth Quotes
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved...
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.
Emotion Quotes
It's a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it's a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.
More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.
The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.
Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should've been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a...
Healing Quotes
I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship...
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
Grief is a very strange thing. It can affect you in all kinds of ways. I lost a year. I’ve done a lot of therapy and it’s great to be back on the horse.
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
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Others caution against letting sorrow tip into something that harms the living as much as it honors the dead. Explore Emotion quotes for more on processing loss.
