grief therapy Quotes

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much." "I'm sorry," she said. "Will it ever get better?" The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I...I don't know.

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

Grief is itself a medicine.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Great griefs medicine the less.

One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.