Walker Percy Quotes

Time takes away the grief of men.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

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.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.