It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. - Quintus Tullius Cicero We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. - William Shatner Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief? - Joan Bauer Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. - L M Montgomery Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message? - Or...

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life - Nicholas Sparks In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place. - Robert Goolrick