Change Quote by Sigmund Freud

“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we…

— J. William Worden

“Although we know that after such a loss the acute state of mourning will subside, we also know we shall remain inconsolable and will…

— Carolyn Ambler Walter

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear.…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we…

— Jim Beaver

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

— Edwin S. Shneidman

By mourning for a loss in past, we are allowing the problem to persist, grow and even take control over our entire life.

— Senora Roy

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for…

— Harpo Marx

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

— Joan Didion

“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

“Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty.”

— Ash Krafton

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

— P. D. James

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn…

— Phillips Brooks