Anne Lamott Quotes

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

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

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Losing someone you love is tough.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

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.

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 was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

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.