Richard Bach Quotes

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

It is useless to tear our hair out when we are in grief, since sorrow is not cured by baldness

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

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

When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.

Losing someone you love is tough.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.