There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.
The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
There are many stages of grief.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.
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.
Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.