Hermann Broch Quotes

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

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

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

It is not easy to talk about peace to people who are mourning every day.

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.