Accepting Quote by Greg Bear

Grief is a species of idleness.

— Samuel Johnson

Grief is exhausting.

— Ciaran Hinds

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Grief takes a long time to process and it's different for everyone.

— Coleen Nolan

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

— Carrie Brownstein

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with…

— William Wycherley

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.

— Anonymous

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.

— Judy Tatelbaum

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

— Rashi

Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.

— Andrew Strauss

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.'…

— Keanu Reeves

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

— Alison Bechdel