Grief Quote by Brittainy C. Cherry

“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required…

— Joan Didion

“There was supposed to be grief when someone died, tears and heartfelt eulogies, the cutting pain of loss. Instead, he felt…nothing. Just numbness, an…

— Piper Vaughn

“… mourning is a paradoxical process in which a person must affirm precisely those orphaned desires that are most unrealistic and impossible to fulfill…

— Sandra Buechler

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have...

— Edwin S. Shneidman

“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was unsure whether…

— John Connolly

“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But…

— David Rieff

“There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of our work…

— Edwidge Danticat

“The grim egoism (egotism) of mourning of suffering”

— Roland Barthes

“The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to…

— Molly Friedenfeld

“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is…

— Roland Barthes

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of…

— Edwin S. Shneidman

“This was what real grief felt like—she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she…

— Dan Chaon