Stages Of Grief Quotes:

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Death, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Joy And Grief, Stages Of Grief

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Fear, Grief, Yawning, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

- Anne Grant

topic: Love, Pain, Grief, Stages Of Grief, Sympathy Condolences

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

- Jennifer Aniston

source: “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

topic: Pain, Trying, Cracks, Stages Of Grief, Celebrity Relationship

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Friendship, Grief, Healing, Making Friends, Bff

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Death, Pain, Grief, Joy And Grief, Inspirational Bereavement

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

topic: Grief, Grieving, Masters, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

topic: Sympathy, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

The only cure for grief is action.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

topic: Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief, Inspirational Grief, Stages Of Grief

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

- George Eliot

topic: Sad, Grief, Wrestling, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

- Erich Fromm

topic: Grief, Grieving, Bereavement, Stages Of Grief, Mourning Death

We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

- Kristin Armstrong

topic: Grief, Past, Hands, Stages Of Grief, Embrace Life

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

- Emily Giffin

source: Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.307, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Grief, World, Way, Stages Of Grief, When Someone Dies

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

- Moliere

topic: Courage, Grief, Grieving, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

source: "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.

topic: Beauty, Pain, Remains, Stages Of Grief, Pain And Loss

There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

- Jennifer Aniston

source: “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

topic: Pain, Grief, Feelings, Stages Of Grief, Coming To An End

When you are sorrowful, look again.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

- Gretchen Rubin

source: Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.37, Harmony

topic: Happiness, Memories, Happy Memories, Stages Of Grief

Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical presence left the planet. Working consciously with such an in-my-face overwhelmingly painful loss, I was able to process it to the point of accepting that although my relationship with her would be different, I could still sense and celebrate that there was no separation between our spirits. Being present and open to each stage of grief eventually led to her visiting me in my dreams and a tangible sense of her presence.

- Michael Beckwith

source: Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

topic: Mother, Dream, Grief, Stages Of Grief

Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.

- Bel Mooney

topic: Grief, Suffering, Sorrow, Stages Of Grief, Timetables

We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness has four stages. To eke out the most happiness from an experience we must: anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

- Gretchen Rubin

topic: Memories, Grief, Acceptance, Stages Of Grief