Quotes tagged ‘Grieving’

“Among the posts appreciating Rivera’s life and work, many came from queer folks who hailed her portrayal of Lopez on Glee.”

— Wren Sanders, them.us

“I learned that whatever we say means nothing, what anyone will remember is that we came.”

— Julia Kasdorf, amazon.com

“Let me tell you, dying is a lot harder on the living than it is on the dead. Death really only hurts those left behind.”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

“Had Rick heard and felt the beginning of the building’s collapse? Had he known what was coming? These thoughts kept her awake, night after night.”

— James B. Stewart, newyorker.com

“I also know denial is the first stage of the grieving process for those who learn they're going to die.”

— Scott Buck, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“My father never really got to know the internet all grown up, and the internet never really got to know my father—except as a murder victim.”

— Gabrielle Birkner, broadly.vice.com

“In my life, I have been so lucky. Though I do wonder: Is this my love story? Is it theirs?”

— Judith Newman, nytimes.com

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“You can’t grieve for a guy who didn’t exist yet. All we have to go on here is what he actually did while alive.”

— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com

“Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to love. Then they leave and we mourn them too. Is that what we’re here for? To sit at kitchen tables, counting on our fingers the ones who died, those who left and the others who w…”

— Warsan Shire, poetryinternationalweb.net

“How would you like me to act? You want me to cry my eyes out? Bang my fists on the wall? She's gone. That's it. People leave. People die. It's the only sure thing there is in this world.”

— I. Marlene King, Mike Montgomery, Cody Christian, imdb.com

“Grief never looks like just tears and anguish. It's a lot of things all at once. It's joy and laughter and guilt and anxiety and restlessness. It's why we have so much trouble identifying it ourselves in the aftermath of a tragedy.”

— Geraldine DeRuiter, twitter.com

“I understand the pain you're in, son. The reason for your silence. I lost a son and a nephew to gang violence. I didn't want anyone arrested. I wanted them all dead. Heartless, cold bullets to the back of the head, just the way they killed my boy. That's a natural reaction. The desire for revenge, i…”

— Kurt Sutter, Tyne Patterson, CCH Pounder, imdb.com

“Veronica: Not to be a complete narcissist, but I thought people would be more... Kevin: Obsessed with you? Any other year, you'd be trending number one, for sure. This year, though, it's all about Cheryl trying to win the Best Supporting Psycho Oscar for her role as Riverdale High's bereaved Red Wid…”

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Veronica Lodge, Camila Mendes, imdb.com

“Two kinds of grieving: conscious, overt, 'controlled'; unconscious, covert, uncontrolled, roiling & chaotic. We can swim in the waves of the first sort of grief with some measure of control; the second engulfs, obliterates us.”

— Joyce Carol Oates, twitter.com

“I’ve never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it’s like an animal. She’s not eating. She’s not sleeping. She’s whimpering. She’s sluggish. She’s not herself. The least thing and the tears come.”

— Jackie Kay, amazon.com

“How do you greet a grieving widow at her husband's funeral? Good mourning”

— HunterHenryk, reddit.com

“So she’s gone. So I can’t handle it.”

— Mitchell King, spilledmilkmagazine.com

“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”

— Edmund Burke, amazon.com

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com