Bereavement Quote by Sol Luckman

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

There are many stages of grief.

— Jennifer Aniston

“The first thing to know is that grief is not a straight line. It doesn’t happen in “stages,” as is commonly thought; it happens…

— Susan J. Elliott

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And…

— Jodi Picoult

“How we respond to grief can shape our present”

— KC Rhoads

“Grief is not an identity. What feels so solid and real as a grief reaction (or any other reaction) in any moment is merely…

— Sameet M. Kumar

Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.

— David Lowery

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end,…

— Elizabeth Scott

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

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

— Laura van den Berg

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

Having some form of structure to process and manage grief collectively surely helps: as someone put it to me, grief is like a landscape…

— Owen Jones