Neneh Cherry Quotes

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

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

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

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

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Life is about surviving loss.

If you live through the death of your child, you should be able to talk about it and let other people know it's OK to go on.

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.

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day.

My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

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.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

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.'

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.