Food for thought: quotes about grief

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ~ Aeschylus

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~ Author Unknown

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~ Dan Rather
For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. ~ Hilary Stanton Zunin

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~ Jan Glidewell

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain

Grief is a journey, often perilous and without clear direction, that must be taken. The experience of grieving cannot be ordered or categorized, hurried or controlled, pushed aside or ignored indefinitely. It is inevitable as breathing, as change, as love. It may be postponed, but it will not be denied. ~ Molly Fumia
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ~ Ovid

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ~ Robert Frost