Birthday Quote by Ben Marcus

Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

— Shackerley Marmion

In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as…

— Clint Smith

There's death and there's loss, but there's also celebrations, right?

— Justin Hartley

The greatest griefs are silent.

— Wally Lamb

The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not…

— Judith Butler

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next…

— Robert Aris Willmott

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

— Anonymous

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be…

— James Martineau

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a…

— Marcel Proust

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 different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate…

— Joan Didion

Grief shared was grief lessened.

— Karen Marie Moning