No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.C.S. Lewis
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.C.S. Lewis
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.C.S. Lewis
Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its phases.C.S. Lewis
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.C.S. Lewis
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indispensible facts - you seize with all your fingers and do your best to comprehend.C.S. Lewis
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?C.S. Lewis
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?C.S. Lewis
Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.C.S. Lewis
In my most clear-sighted moments not only do I not think myself a fool for crying, the loss of my wife, but I think myself a fool for not crying more. Indeed at some moments I am convinced that I ought to be crying unceasingly.C.S. Lewis
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.C.S. Lewis