Quotes About Grief

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.