Arthur Golden Quotes

My best girl is dead.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

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

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

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.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is exhausting.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Pearls mean tears.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Do not weep for me.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

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.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

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

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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.

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.