People in mourning have to come to grips with death before they can live again. Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't have to end after a year: that a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt, and pain.

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, "On Death and Dying"

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over.

~ Edith Hamilton

Grief has a quality of healing in it that is very deep because we are forced to a depth of emotion that is usualy below the threshold of our awareness.

~ Steven Levine