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There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

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.

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

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

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

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.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.