He didn’t just remember his grief, he relearned it.

“We have relearned since 9/11 the timeless lesson that we don’t always get to fight the wars for which we’re most prepared or most…

— David Petraeus

“Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”~The Grimoire”

— S.M. Boyce

“Now it is as if I remember my grief rather than experience it. I remember the pain I suffered as the memories washed over…

— Linda Olsson

“Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“i am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time. — the mourn”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“I buried my grief for my son, not my memories, but my grief.”

— Deborah Smith

“May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.”

— Herculine Barbin

“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in face of…

— Gavin Maxwell

“A memory that costs you something," he said aloud, almost to himself. "One that hurts to remember. That makes you regret what you did…

— Daria Lavelle

“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

— Jonathan Tropper

Always remember a little thing can change everything.

— Anonymous

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

— Herb Caen

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

— Phoebe Stone

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

— Tobias Wolff