Jenny Downham 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.

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

They'll take everything, even your tears.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

A piece of each of us died.

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

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

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

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.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There is no love without suffering.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Some things you just don't get over.

I envy the dead.

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

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

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

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.