Dorothy Bush Koch Quotes

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

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

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

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.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.