Body Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

— Veronica Roth

There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open…

— Jennifer Aniston

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

— Anne Grant

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

— Plutarch

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole…

— Helen Steiner Rice

“To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.”

— Veronica Roth

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of…

— Stephen Levine

“The hurt means you're alive. It means your body is reacting and willing to fight - both to fight back and fight through it.…

— Frank Page

Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor…

— Gerald May

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp…

— Robin Hobb

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and…

— Anne Lamott