Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Grief is exhausting.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

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.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

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

My private life's quite sad.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.

After Balasaheb died, I have not spoken. What do I say?

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.