Grief Resolution Quotes

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Each organ is related to an emotion, and the lungs are related to grief. When you clear your lungs, you eliminate grief and sadness.

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

You can't go to Amazon and order a book on how you handle grief. There's books on it, sure. But there's no tried and true manual. You just have to live that out. There's no formula to heal.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

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

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

A person doesn't mourn forever.

Every emotion that I had over the last three years pretty much had to be put on hold.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

See how time makes all grief decay.

When we assume that 'normal' people need 'time to heal,' or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more after a loss, as some grief counselors do, we may be giving inappropriate advice. Such advice can cause people who feel ready to move on to wonder if they are hardhearted.

But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.

Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.