This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.
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 in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
Grief is exhausting.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
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.
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