Sympathy card Quote by David Sedaris

“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She never spoke…

— Salman Rushdie

“My dad died of cancer in the month when spirits walk among the living. He's still here because I'm having a hard time letting…

— C. Lee McKenzie

“I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not…

— Raquel Cepeda

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“I wait for him to do what everyone else did after my parents died. Spout of some conventional words of sympathy like, I'm so…

— Jessica Park

“I grew up fast, and that meant I started to understand at an early age that grief can create the worst sort of demons…

— Sawyer Bennett

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?”

— Priscille Sibley

“When my mother died I learned that grief can be a very private thing.”

— Glenn Meade

“There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you…

— Jesse Andrews

“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me…

— Jonathan Sacks

“There was supposed to be grief when someone died, tears and heartfelt eulogies, the cutting pain of loss. Instead, he felt…nothing. Just numbness, an…

— Piper Vaughn