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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.