Suzanne Collins Quotes

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

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?

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

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

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

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.

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

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

I don't really cry.

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

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

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

I'm not too big on feelings.

I don't cry about anything.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

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

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.