Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Pearls mean tears.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

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

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

I can speak for everybody in saying we've all been through a breakup to where you didn't want it to be over.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

I lost both my parents, and it wasn't as hard as losing Paul, because you've got your whole life with them - you know it's going to happen. With Paul being my best friend, I just didn't see it coming.

Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.

I was in the tent when Bobbi Kristina's body was lowered into the ground. Watching her grandmother and her aunt, watching these women not cry but wail - you can't divorce your feelings from some of this stuff.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.