Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief - All There Is with Anderson Cooper - Podcast on CNN Podcasts

I end up crying over beautiful things. Because they're beautiful, despite the grief of the world. And my experience with grief in my life has made me long for beauty, in ways that I'm not even aware of. Like I was in vacation, I was in Saint Remy de Provence, and there's a sanatorium there where Van Gogh ended his life. I believe he killed himself ... See more

We think we can win against grief. We think we can fix it. But you can't. You can only experience it. And to fully experience that, you have to accept that it's real. The loss is real. I don't know about you, but I'm very good at rewriting reality to fit what I'd like it to be on any given moment. And in my entire life, I've had to work very hard t... See more