Quotes About Grief

I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

My sister and I wrote some songs together under a project called Sala Says Mhyp when I was 17. Sala is our cat. She died, and we wanted to do something in honor of our her. We were a proper cat family.

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

In childbirth grief begins.

Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.

MEDEA: The children are dead. I say this to make you suffer.

Wine is an escape from grief, a slip into sleep, a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day. What better cure for being human?

Go home to your wife. Go bury her.

Sorrow is long when love has vanished underground.

No cowardice, and no remembering your children, how they were your dears, or how you gave them birth. Instead for this one fleeting day forget that they are yours, and afterward take time to grieve. Although it's you who's killing them they were your lovely babes. And I'm a woman made of sorrow.

What profit was it to live on, Friend, with my grief kept and mine honour gone?

Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve.