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Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. -- David Whyte
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. -- Stefan Kanfer
No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive. -- Michael Sheen
You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down. -- Katherine Applegate
Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place. -- Paula Sharp
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left. -- Johnny Cash
A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss. -- Olivia Newton-John
The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief. -- Asa Don Brown
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. -- Erin Gray
A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws. -- Nina Easton
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. -- Dean Koontz
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable. -- Rosanne Cash
Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us. -- Susan Wittig Albert
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. -- Anne Grant
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. -- Linda Hamilton
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man. -- John Pearson
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. -- Dan Chaon
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.' -- Sam Taylor-Wood
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. -- Queen Elizabeth II
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. -- Kevin Rudd
As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons. -- Mark Billingham
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. -- Natasha Trethewey
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. -- Euripides
Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. -- Orson Scott Card
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. -- Walker Percy
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. -- David LaChapelle
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. -- Anne Roiphe
Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life. -- Lily James
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. -- Louise Hay
We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie -- Deborah Heiligman
I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition. -- Paula White
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. -- Henry Cloud
Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--And?And it makes you vulnerable. -- Jim Butcher
It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children. -- John R. Allen
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. -- Dean Koontz
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. -- William Wycherley
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it. -- Joseph Addison
You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path. -- Juliet Marillier
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent. -- Stephen Levine
I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children. -- Elin Nordegren
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp. -- Stephen Levine
There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture. -- Irving Kirsch
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed. -- Pericles

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