Pegi Young Quotes

There is no love without suffering.

It was the saddest day of my life.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.

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.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

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.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

I know what it's like to lose.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Grief is exhausting.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

All of my books come from pain.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.