grief Quotes

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

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

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.