Grief, Grieving

All things grow with time — except grief. – Yiddish Proverb

Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones. – Proverb

Grief is light that is capable of counsel. – Proverb

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. Psalms 30:5 – Bible

Theres no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
Theres such a thing as keeping
A remembrance in ones heart… – Charlotte Bronte

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. – Jean De La Bruyere

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. – Antonia S. Byatt

When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie
In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes,
I shall not die, I shall not utterly die,
For beauty born of beauty– that remains. – Madison Cawein

No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. – E. M. Cioran

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. – Benjamin Disraeli

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell