“Oh, that my head were a spring
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night ….”
—Jeremiah 9:1

[Jeremiah 9:1 is one of the Lectionary Readings for the Lenton Season]

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly
can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves
to counteract their grief and heals them.” —Leo Tolstoy

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
—Veronica Roth

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing….There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
C.S. Lewis, “A Grief Observed”