Able Quote by George Eliot

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like…

— Marianne Williamson

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

— Megan Hart

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

— John Claypool

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“How we respond to grief can shape our present”

— KC Rhoads

If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of…

— Cheryl Strayed

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good…

— Plutarch

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which…

— Pericles

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

— Ovid

“And it is, by the way, from the presence of others that we really derive support in our dark hours of grief, and not…

— H. Rider Haggard

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

— Travis Knight