“There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.”

“It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief”

“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want...”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”

“If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.”

“Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”

“Ah, grief makes us precise!”

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an e...”

“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”

“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.”