Yaya DaCosta Quotes

My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.

The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

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.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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.

I miss my mother very, very much.

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

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

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

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.

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.