Mimi Kennedy Quotes

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

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

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

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.

You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

Time takes away the grief of men.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'

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.

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.