If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 the price we pay for love.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
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.