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

“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.”

“[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been...”

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

“Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.”

“What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.”

“I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel."- Does it get easier?"Yes. But you'll never be the same ag...”

“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”

“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”