#grief

Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#lost #mourn #mourning

Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”~The Grimoire ↗

— S.M. Boyce

#healing #love #pain #love

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#dividing #doubling #grief #happiness #improves

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#grief #instruments #more #pity #speaks

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#sorrow #time #funny

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#always #around #go #grief #grieving

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#euphoria #grief #kind #madness

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#among #comes #every #fact #grief

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

#either #grief #hands #idleness #man

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness. ↗

— Ann Richards

#grief #i #i think #ok #recognize