Private Grief Quotes

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'

These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Tears belong within the family.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.