Joan Rivers Quotes

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

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!

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

It was the saddest day of my life.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

I know what it's like to lose.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

Everybody's lost somebody, and I think they all miss them incredibly.

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is exhausting.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.