Grief Quotes #6

"There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms."

- Charlotte Bronte

Grief Quotes #5

"The thing about grief is that there isn't a place or time at which we arrive once-and-for-all at peace, or healing, or completion."

- Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

From Bearing the Unbearable

Grief Quotes #4

"It's typically American to equate healing with doing something. When we have a problem, we fix it, and we prefer to do it quickly. But fixing is not the same as healing; in fact it can easily get in the way of healing...Healing happens not through doing but through feeling."

- Elio Frattaroli

Grief Quotes #3

"Yet there is no place for the tidy, the neat, or the civilized in mourning.

Grief violates convention: it is raw, primal, seditious, chaotic, writhing, and most certainly uncivilized. Yet grief is an affirmation of human passion, and only those who are apathetic, who stonewall love, who eschew intimacy can escape grief's pull.

No intervention and no interventionist can 'cure' our grief. And we are not broken - we are brokenhearted.

Grief is not a medical disorder to be cured.

Grief is not spiritual crisis to be resolved.

Grief is not a social woe to be addressed.

Grief is, simply a matter of the heart - to be felt."

- Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

From Bearing the Unbearable