Jason Reynolds Quotes

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

It is useless to tear our hair out when we are in grief, since sorrow is not cured by baldness

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

We know the Victorian way of dealing with death, which was not dealing with it. You'll never get over it but having the support of a counsellor who has been there hundreds of times is so important, to help you develop strategies to cope.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

It's a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it's a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.