Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.
Gregory Nunn
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the... →
Meghan O'Rourke
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly... →
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely... →
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to... →
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