Quotes About Grief

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

Other dogs may do their jobs in their own unique and perfectly wonderful ways, but there will always be that dog that no dog will replace, the dog that will make you cry even when it's been gone for more years than it could ever have lived.

I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.

I was really inspired by the film Minority Report when he sees the projection of his wife because she's no longer there, but she's life-size and in the room with him, and that's very painful.

'Lose My Cool' is the second track on my EP dedicated to a stage in the grieving process. This track represents anger. I really bottled a lot up after my mother passed, and one day, I couldn't handle it anymore and just exploded on all of my friends and family. It was a very passive way of dealing with things, not very healthy.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.

When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if something's happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Until I was seven, I was very close to my mother because I was so ill and she had to teach me how to walk and talk. But then she had another child, a little girl called Fleur, who died. When she came home from hospital there was a bit of a distance between us. It was never talked about again.

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.

We have all been impacted by COVID-19. Some of us have lost a loved one and others know those who are sick.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will - including doing seminars.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

The death of a child, the most sorrowful of all the mysteries.

They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.