Suzanne Collins Quotes

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.