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What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

—P.D. James

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What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mold, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.

—Leo Tolstoy

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When all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on his floor and tried to drink in his scent, to savor the essence of my sweet boy. . . . I inhaled it long and hard, wanting to permanently implant all of him in my brain, to make him last forever.

—Shelley Ramsey

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For grief has darkened my eyes; my body is like a shadow. . . . My days fade like an echo; the strings of my heart have snapped.

—The Book of Job

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Not that Mrs. Marston did not feel it [when her husband died]. She did, as deeply as her nature could. But she felt it as a well-padded boy feels a whacking, through layers of convention.

—Mary Webb

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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

—Dean Inge

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My uncle was a clown for the Ringling Brothers Circus, and when he died, all of his friends went to the funeral in one car.

—Steven Wright

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado, or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences, whether it is in matters social, political, or other. It consists in deeds, not words.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

—Elayne Boosler

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Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.

—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The dark side of men is clear. Their mad exploitation of earth resources, devaluation and humiliation of women, and obsession with tribal warfare are undeniable. Genetic inheritance contributes to their obsessions, but also culture and environment. We have defective mythologies that ignore masculine depth of feeling, assign men a place in the sky instead of earth, teach obedience to the wrong powers, [and] work to keep men boys.

—Robert Bly

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One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

—Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

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From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.

—John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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