James Frey Quotes

In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal.

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is exhausting.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

It was the saddest day of my life.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

I know what it's like to lose.

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