Quotes About Grief

But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.

I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

'You Should Be Here' came from a real place. I lost my father... it was right when I was getting my record deal. There's just been so many moments that he hasn't been here for. It's kind of the reason I wrote the song.

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'

I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.

I never thought there would be a day when I would have to handle things without my father.

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.

In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.

You can't go to Amazon and order a book on how you handle grief. There's books on it, sure. But there's no tried and true manual. You just have to live that out. There's no formula to heal.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.