Quotes — Sadness, Grief and Despair

• "Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!"

  — Robert Burns

  Man Was Made To Mourn

• "Honest plain words best pierce the ears of grief."

  — William Shakespeare

  Love's Labour's Lost

• "Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship or as autumn follows summer."

  — C. S. Lewis

  A Grief Observed

• "Unfinished business encompasses all those things we haven’t said or done. The feelings we wish we allowed ourselves to feel. Those feelings that we have ignored and not attended to."

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

  On Grief & Grieving

• "Why grieve? For two reasons. First, those who grieve well, live well. Second, and most important, grief is the healing process of the heart, soul, and mind; it is the path that returns us to wholeness."

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

  On Grief & Grieving

• "Grief is the intense emotional response to the pain of a loss. It is the reflection of a connection that has been broken. Most important, grief is an emotional, spiritual, and psychological journey to healing."

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

  On Grief & Grieving

• "There is no correct way or time to grieve."

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  On Death & Dying

• "Since in our unconscious mind we are all immortal, it is almost inconceivable for us to acknowledge that we too have to face death."

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  On Death & Dying

• "Mystics in many spiritual traditions see suffering as necessary, essential, the only means toward closeness to God or to existential transcendence. Yet in our medicalized world, normal bereavement and trauma are turned into mental disorders with diagnostic codes, which then become treatable with medications. But if grief is a disease, so too must be love."

  — Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

  Bearing the Unbearable

• "Beauty and pain coexist. But when we are in the early phases of grieving, in order to eventually see beauty in the world again, we must first feel and inhabit our pain."

  — Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

  Bearing the Unbearable

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