You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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.
There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
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 can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.