Quotes About Grief

I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

Everyone deals with tragedy in his own way.

Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother survived the incident, but the loss devastated my parents. I think they went into shock for a couple of years.

I've often said this - that you can get through a tragedy, and... you trudge on, but the pain never really goes away. And when you sing the songs about things that have happened, the pain surfaces and... it brings it all back.

Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.

Losing Jane was tragic and I thought I'd never get married again, or have more children, or would even ever want to.

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.

The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.

I know from experience that one of the first things to drop off during great transitions, such as dealing with grief or loss, is taking care of our bodies.

Jeannle and I lost a son, Tlmmy, in 1985 to a liver transplant operation, if we can do some good, we want to do so.

Uvijek zamišljamo da ?emo bliskim osobama sve sti?i re?i i objasniti, pokazati kako ih razumijemo i volimo. Iznenadna smrt nepravedna je i za onog koji ostaje.

They all laughed, except Tyr; he lost his hand.

Grief made me blind and I thought that only I had suffered at the hands of death.

Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.