“[On Brad Pitt divorce] There are many stages of grief. It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I’m a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren’t in fron…”— Jennifer Aniston, vanityfair.com
“People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Grief can destroy you -- or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for gran…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Society teaches us that having feelings and crying is bad and wrong. Well, that's baloney because grief isn't wrong. There's such a thing as good grief. Just ask Charlie Brown.”— Jennifer Celotta, amazon.com
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of…”— Henri J.M. Nouwen, amazon.com
“I see a nutcracker in a store window display and want to throw the biggest rock at it I can find. I want to shatter the glass with my bare knuckles, to bleed all over the happiness. I want to stuff tinsel in the mouth of the nutcracker, to watch him destroy everything that is supposed to bring cheer…”— Ari Eastman, amazon.com
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“His words fell through him, trying to find the floor of his sadness.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day and through.”— Billie Holiday, youtube.com
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com