Terry Pratchett Quotes

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

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.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

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

The toughest challenges I've faced are the deaths of my mother and Stephen Gately.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

Grief is exhausting.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

I've just had some things to deal with, like family stuff, you know, lost my mom. Which is the most difficult stuff I've gone through. But it's just normal human stuff.

I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it.

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