Grief - The Price We Pay for Love
Grief "Grief is the price we pay for love." While this statement is credited to the late Queen Elizabeth the II, it is actually a shortened version of what Dr. Colin Murray Parkes stated in Bereavement: Studies in Grief in Adult Life. Dr. Parkes stated, " he pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love: it is perhaps the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment. To ignore this fact, or to pretend that it is not so, is to put on emotional blinkers which leave us unprepared for the losses that will inevitably occur in our own lives and unprepared to help others cope with losses in theirs." Before Queen Elizabeth II and Dr. Parkes, this sentiment is the simple epitaph on Jane Austen's tombstone. ( “Five Famous (and Several Not-So-Famous) Grief Quotes”) "Their grief is in proportion to their affection they know their loss to be irreparable." Before reading further, I think that it is important to understand the timing of this post...
