Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.
Grief is exhausting.
Grief causes suffering and disease.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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.