Helen Hunt Jackson Quotes

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

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

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

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

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

It was the saddest day of my life.

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

I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.