Joyce Grenfell Quotes

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.

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.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

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

When someone close to you dies, move seats.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

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.

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 don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

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.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not like that all the time. Not every moment is dark.

Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.' It's something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.

Of course when you lose your parent, it's like one chapter in your book of life ends. It's difficult but it's a part of life and you have to accept it.