“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.” DifferentStatesFeelingsGriefStageWave Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.” YearsChildrenLongMomentsFactsHappensLastsLossGriefForeverFiveFourStageCarEventsHusbandPressureSeriesLifetimeAccidentsEnormousTeenagerGrievingFive YearsFiftyOur SocietyFour YearsGet OverAftermathCar AccidentTimelines Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.” WorldWayTryingHumansEndsHardFeelingsPainWishHuman BeingsGriefGreaterStageFrontsCracksHuman ExperienceRise AboveComing To An EndStages Of GriefRise Above ItCelebrity Relationship Author:Jennifer Aniston
“We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.” IfsWayNeedsHandsMightPastGriefAcceptingImpossibleStageEmbraceAcceptableWay To LiveClingingFinalityEmbrace LifeStages Of Grief Author:Kristin Armstrong
“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingLongStillsEnoughHelpingFeelingsPainSinGriefVirtueStageHorrorEmpathyDirectUltimateHealInjuryClothingsCowardiceShelterShrinksTributeVicarious Book:A pocketful of pebbles Source: A pocketful of pebbles
“The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.” MayHelpingFeelingsLostGriefFiveStageAcceptanceToolsDenialFrameworkLinearBargainingTimelinesStages Of Grief Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.” ChildrenHas BeensWantedLossGriefStageMy ChildrenShockDisbelief Author:Elin Nordegren
“Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical presence left the planet. Working consciously with such an in-my-face overwhelmingly painful loss, I was able to process it to the point of accepting that although my relationship with her would be different, I could still sense and celebrate that there was no separation between our spirits. Being present and open to each stage of grief eventually led to her visiting me in my dreams and a tangible sense of her presence.” WayStillsDifferentDreamWould BeAbleFacesSpiritMotherLeftProcessLossGriefAcceptingKnowingStageTearsPlanetsPainfulSeparationPassingPassingsCelebrateTangibleVisitingStages Of Grief Author:Michael Beckwith
“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.” WorldWaySeemsDiesGriefWorstStageInitialsBorrowedTime Goes ByStages Of GriefWhen Someone Dies Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue
“In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.” MenWritingHeartArtStillsLightAgeLyingNightCommonGriefPaySecretStageArmsProudLoversMoonAmbitionPagesSingingPraiseTradeRoundsRageBreadCraftsCharmLabourWagesHeedPsalmsIvoryNightingalesSullenProud Man Author:Dylan Thomas
“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.” IfsKnowsMayMatterChangeLosesLossGriefStageNo Matter WhatRemainsFilledGrievingMourningGapsSubstitutesNeverthelessGriefingGrief And MourningMourning LossMourning A Loss Author:Sigmund Freud
“At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds” LoveHumansHeartMayDifferentHuman BeingsGriefWorryOur LivesStageSourceCapacityTrue LoveAttractionLoyaltyContentmentOddsDependenceVaryAgainst All OddsAgainst The OddsSigns Of Love Author:Michael Dorris
“Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.” EndsPlayPainSufferingIndividualCausesGriefStageSorrowPerceiveDualityPain And Suffering Author:Anandamayi Ma
“We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness has four stages. To eke out the most happiness from an experience we must: anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.” MemoriesGriefFiveFourHeardStageAcceptanceI RealizedDenialContrastRecallsDrsAnticipateBargainingHappy MemoriesStages Of Grief Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.” StatesSufferingGriefStageSorrowIllPermanentSicknessUnseenTherapistsIll HealthTimetablesStages Of Grief Author:Bel Mooney
“Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.” ThreePresidentGriefEmotionWorstStageAcceptanceAngerFollowingTerroristConfusionSoilShockDefianceTerrorist AttacksPresident George W BushSept 11Raw Emotion Author:Ron Fournier