Anita Dobson Quotes

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

I've always had a really difficult time with loss.

I lost three cousins and a best friend, and they all came at the wrong time. Everyone told me to be strong and that they were in a better place. But I didn't want to hear that. They were gone and I will never see them again.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

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

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

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.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.