He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still get up in the morning and send out the laundry. I would still plan a menu for Easter lunch. I wou...

Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently.

Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die

Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out...though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love.

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want...

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.

I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.

I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...

When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintan...

I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last bath is out of their bodies...

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing conspiracy of smiles and well-being. Pain and grief are most healing and ecstatic emotions. Yes, sure, t...

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and,...

It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished." - 140