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We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you'll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.