Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

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

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

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.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

It was the saddest day of my life.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

I know what it's like to lose.

Going away to prison was nothing, I'm just saying, compared to losing my mom.

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

It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

I might never breathe again once he walked away from me.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

Love is loss combined with pain.

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.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

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 David left me I became totally brokenhearted.