Take a short view of human life not farther than dinner or tea.

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant ... Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

After any major sadness or crisis in life, make a conscious effort to recapture joy in very small things: be it the first snowdrop, dew on a spider's web, the song of a bird, the sun on your back - or even something as simple as feeling just the right temperature at a particular moment. But it takes practice.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.

Great griefs are mute.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.