Grief was just the moment before you tied off the thread…

“Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“Laura was going to sew herself into the shape of happiness all on her own.”

— Emma Straub

“Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.”

— Tom Wolfe

“As long as this attachment remains, it is impossible to make progress in perfection, even though the imperfection be very small. It makes little…

— Connie Rossini

“I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone else and…

— Shreyansh Jaiswal

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief;…

— Anonymous

Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again…

— C. S. Lewis

I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no…

— Sue Grafton

“I knew from experience there isn't anything anyone can really say to help you through your grief. You just have to let the pain…

— Koethi Zan

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

— Omar Khayyam

“You don’t get over grief, you just get more used to it.”

— Susan Oakey-Baker

“[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It has occurred to me that if everyone could be there just once to see for themselves what white phosphorous does to the face…

— James Nachtwey