There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard..

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the ….

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap..

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own..

All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just gr….

Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently went to wo….

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it..

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus ….

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to….

What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to ….

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us.….

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit..

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear..

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to refo….

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited..

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain b….

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of gr….

Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me….

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving..

Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. ….

I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul ….