Dana Reeve Quotes

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

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

Grief is a process, not a state.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

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

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

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.

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.

It took me a year to talk about my miscarriage.

Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.

After losing Steve, it does kind of feel like I'm free-falling.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow.

My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not like that all the time. Not every moment is dark.

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

I lost my dad in 2009 and on my album 'Feels,' it's about all different feels.