Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. I had to remake it again and be a new person in the world without my mom. It was a very primal rebirth, that time after my mom died.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Death is the mother of forms.