Block Quote by Etgar Keret

“Grief wasn't a feeling. It was a thing that visited. It was a weight, a lead wall, and it pressed on her lungs and…

— Meg Gardiner

“He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math…

— Helen Simonson

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

— P. D. James

“He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It surprised him that his grief was sharper than in the past few days. He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a…

— Helen Simonson

“Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn’t get out of bed. Just when you…

— Brenda Rothert

He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was…

— Richard Yates

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

“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

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...

— Anonymous

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with…

— Louise Erdrich