Ellen Hopkins Quotes

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

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

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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.

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.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

A piece of each of us died.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

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

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

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

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Death is not the worst sorrow.