Annastacia Palaszczuk Quotes

First of all, a lot of people, a lot of women and men, have lost their children. I'm not the only one. But I happen to be blessed that my son gave me all these things to work with so that I get to work out my grief in a way that other people are not able to. So I can't possibly be downtrodden about that.

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

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.

If you live through the death of your child, you should be able to talk about it and let other people know it's OK to go on.

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

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

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

I've always had a really difficult time with loss.

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

No one ever tells you what the grieving process is going to be like. The process of losing a parent or ending a show or vocal injuries - they all bring on their own special breed of dismay... You just have to ride the wave. You don't have any other choice.

They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into overdrive. When you get to such an intense place of suffering, you either have the choice to continue suffering or figure a way not to.

I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.

We all understand loss. It's about what you do with that.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

It's something I'd never wish anybody to have to go through, having a mother pass away at a young age. But it's made me realize that people need help.

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

Sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.