Jimmy Carr Quotes

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.

It's hard to make progress with grief.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

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.

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

It's not easy to adapt to losing a lot.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.