Erik Larson Quotes

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

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 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.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

I am tired of losing people.

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

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.

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

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.