- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief Quotes
Words for the weight of loss and the slow work of healing.
Several lines resist the idea of grief as something to conquer once, describing it instead as a shifting, day-to-day experience. Read more in our Healing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief causes suffering and disease.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Grief is exhausting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020