“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”

“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”

“If we cannot take away all the grief, all the evil, all the death, we will start with loving everyone, trying ourselves not to give the grief, the evil, the death, with the faith that the rest of the grief, evil and death will disappear.”

“Grief like anything else – like a stone – is content only; God gives us the form, that serenity, purity and self-possession with which to surround and live grief.”

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”

“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”