Any natural,
normal human being,
when faced
with any kind of loss,
will go from shock
all the way
through acceptance.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
and the author of the ground-breaking book On Death and Dying)
Grief is the price
we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand since 1952)
There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me
a happy middle
And a very happy start.
Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children’s books)
Don’t send me flowers
when I’m dead.
If you like me,
send them
while I’m alive.
Brian Clough
Grief is in two parts.
The first is loss.
The second
is the remaking of life.
Anne Roiphe
There’s a bit
of magic in everything,
and some loss
to even things out.
Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed
It’s easier to identify
with loss than love,
because we have had
so much more experience of it.
Roger Joseph Ebert
journalist, screenwriter, and author)
My writing comes not
from the happy moments,
but from struggle and grief.
Isabel Allende
Anyone
who has lost something
they thought was theirs forever
finally comes to realise
that nothing
really belongs to them.
Paulo Coelho de Souza
his novel The Alchemist has been translated into 81 languages)
