Grief Suppression Quotes

Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he'd never existed. Me and my brothers weren't even allowed to go to his funeral. His death was made absolute.

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing 'Mandy' as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

There is so much stimuli coming at young people, you don't even have time to grieve before something new happens. We are desensitized to the issues.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.