David Lagercrantz Quotes

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

Age is full of regrets and most of them are about treating people unkindly.

We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything - from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet.

I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.