Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Quotes

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

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

I done been to so many funerals.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.