Being afraid Quote by Anonymous

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same…

— Anonymous

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C. S. Lewis

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

— Anne Grant

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

— William Shakespeare

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There…

— Lauren Oliver

I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both…

— Veronica Roth

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its…

— Arthur Golden

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

— Zelda Popkin

I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with…

— Ann Hood

Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as…

— Judy Tatelbaum