<p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>"Grief is the price for Love"</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><em>is erroneously attributed to Queen Elizabeth; but the quote comes from a longer passage by Dr Colin Murray Parkes, a British psychiatrist and a pioneer.</em></p>

<p>"The 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.”</p>

<p dir="ltr">[Editor] The expression&nbsp;,”Grief is the price for love” is erroneously attributed to&nbsp;Queen Elizabeth; but the quote comes from a longer passage by Dr Colin Murray Parkes, a British psychiatrist and a pioneer in this field. The Queen &nbsp;popularized it, but Dr Parkes’ full quote is eloquent and wise and deserves to be acknowledged.The full quote can be found in his book, <span dir="ltr">Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life</span>.</p><h3><em>“The 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 </em></h3><img src="https://blog.aftertalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bereavement-little-150x150.jpg" alt="bereavement little" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://blog.aftertalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bereavement-little-150x150.jpg 150w, https://blog.aftertalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bereavement-little.jpg 160w"><h3><em>help others cope with losses in theirs.”</em></h3><p dir="ltr">You can order this book through the AfterTalk bookstore by <a href="http://www.aftertalk.com/pages/bookstore.aspx" dir="ltr">CLICKING HERE</a>&nbsp;or on the picture of the book.</p><h3>Share this:</h3>

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<p>[Editor] The expression ,”Grief is the price for love” is erroneously attributed to Queen Elizabeth; but the quote comes from a longer passage by Dr Colin Murray Parkes, a British psychiatrist and a pioneer in this field. The Queen  popularized it, but Dr Parkes’ full quote is eloquent and wise and deserves to be acknowledged.The full quote can be found in his book, <span>Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life </span>. </p>

“The 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.”

<p>You can order this book through the AfterTalk bookstore by <a href="http://www.aftertalk.com/pages/bookstore.aspx">CLICKING HERE </a> or on the picture of the book. </p>

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DR COLIN MURRAY PARKES

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