Sue Grafton Quotes

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.

She just keeps saying "He’s gone.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.