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It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

— Helen Garner

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Brent Sexton

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.

— Meghan O'Rourke

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

— Xenophon

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

— Anthony Rapp

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

— Franz Schubert

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

— Anne Grant

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

— Ann Richards

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

— Tori Amos