Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
Lately we have had many losses.
Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.
I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.
