Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer “Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.” People Gone Grief ♥ 7
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic “Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.” Children Memories Grief ♥ 7
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet “Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.” Grief Winter ♥ 6
JL James Lee Burke Author “Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.” Grief Mess Money Can't Buy Happiness ♥ 7
Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer “Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.” Pain Grief Healing ♥ 7
Julian Barnes Author “Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross.” Hands Sex Grief ♥ 7
Homer Poet “Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.” Men Fate Grief ♥ 7
Homer Poet “Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.” Two Blessing Grief ♥ 7
C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar “People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.” People Grief Block ♥ 6
C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar “I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.” Grief Sorrow Maps ♥ 6
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet “Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.” Grief Mountain Echoes ♥ 6
