Rodney Hood Quotes

My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.

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.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

When you lose someone whose life was so extraordinary like my dad's, you have two options: You can curl up in a dark corner... or rise above it and dust yourself off and continue with their work. He will always be with me.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

You rarely hear women crying in Grozney. They have cried their eyes out long ago.

Life is about surviving loss.

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

When people go get chemo, they're not injecting themselves with will - I have lost various loved ones to cancer, and I certainly don't feel that I am any stronger or braver than them.

I love to smile, even through pain.

My mother is a very strong woman. We were seven kids; five of them passed away. My elder brother and I are alive. My mother lost five kids, her husband, her parents and siblings. But she is so strong, she is living for the people who are alive.

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.