Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

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

The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

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

I lost three cousins and a best friend, and they all came at the wrong time. Everyone told me to be strong and that they were in a better place. But I didn't want to hear that. They were gone and I will never see them again.

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

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

Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.

The nature of most Covid-19 deaths, in hospital or a care home away from family and friends, has made it worse for the people they leave behind. In the absence of the traditional rites and rituals of funeral and mourning - the opportunity to just share a hug - the process of bereavement has been made even harder to bear.

My wife was an amazing, amazing person. Sophia's Heart is an organization that I founded in honor of my wife when she passed away. When she passed away it was a complete shock, and it was disappointment, anger. I felt all those emotions.