Quotes About Grief

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.

Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.

We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

People always say time heals. Time doesn't necessarily heal anything. It allows you to manage things. There are occasions where you feel the pain as if it just happened, but you know that it's a fleeting moment.

I feel that most of our pain from the loss of a loved one is things we never said or expressed.

The pain of retirement means loss.

As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.

Losing is very painful for me.

Papa died when he was 77.

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.