Jennifer Weiner Quotes

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

I have people that have died from cancer and friends that are dealing with cancer.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Blood and death. That moves me.