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  • The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

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

    Pain   Trying   Cracks  
    “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.
  • There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
  • Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

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

    Mother   Dream   Grief  
    Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
  • 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.

    Sad   Grief   Wrestling  
    George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271
  • No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

    C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber
  • 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.

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

  • There are many stages of grief.

    "The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. September 2005.
  • 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.

    Pain   Grief   Feelings  
    “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.
  • 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.

    Grief   World   Way  
    Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.307, St. Martin's Griffin
  • The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

    Beauty   Courage   Pain  
    "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.
  • Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

    Sympathy   Death   Pain  
    Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29
  • 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 curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

    "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.
  • Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

    Love   Pain   Condolences  
  • If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

  • The only cure for grief is action.

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

  • Tears are the silent language of grief.

    Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4431, e-artnow
  • It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

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

    Strength   Sad   Sympathy  
  • There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  • 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 (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.195, Open Road Media
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