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Mickey Z
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Friday, January 25, 2008
"Good Grief"
Grief is an interesting process. Almost everyone tells you to “be strong” and that “time will lessen the pain.” But I think it’s crucial to our eventual recovery to allow ourselves to be weak and deeply feel the sorrow...now. Part of that, for me, is talking and writing about my Mom.
William Shakespeare sez: “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sez: “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
(Thanks, Robert)
Some other thoughts on grief:
C. S. Lewis sez: “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson sez: “Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”
Voltaire sez: “Tears are the silent language of grief.”
William Blake sez: “Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
Marcel Proust sez: “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
Keanu Reeves sez: “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
My friend Warren (who lost his Mom last year) sez: “Time doesn’t heal wounds, it just buries them.”
(To which I replied: “Time doesn’t heal wounds; it just creates new ones.")
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