Grief

Grief

Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to loss.

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Famous quotes containing the word grief:

    “Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure:
    Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
    —William Congreve (1670–1729)

    “Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
    But grief returns with the revolving year.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “A grief without a pant, void, dark, and drear,”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)