Lee Grant Quotes

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

I grieve for every death.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

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.

Do not weep for me.

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.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.