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

“Regardless of your religious beliefs, you should never tell a mourning mother that it was "God's plan." For some people, that can be worse…

— David G. McAfee

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 just so scary… If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Elizabeth Chadwick

Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.

— Oliver Sykes

“Rumors alone can cause his family grief. It just isn't fair to compromise a person's reputation.”

— Mary Ellis

“[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

“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 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

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

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

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

— Omar Khayyam

“Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all these mortal…

— Catherine Burns