Margaret Stohl Quotes

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

Some things you just don't get over.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

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

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

I know what it's like to lose.

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

There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

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

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

Grief is exhausting.