Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. – Bede Jarrett
Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. – Terri Guillemets
Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. – E.M. Cioran
Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson
Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper, Charity
Time is a physician that heals every grief. – Diphilus
No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. – Chris Sorensen
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. – Arthur Schopenhauer
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. – Moliere
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prévert
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot
