Grief Quote by Diane Ackerman

“Losing Paul to time was far from the worst thing to happen to me, but the feeling doesn't always match the loss. Sometimes the…

— Catherine Lacey

“And yet this is not always an easy place to be. The weather is unpredictable. Because Paul is buried on the windward side of…

— Paul Kalanithi

“I expected to feel only empty and heartbroken after Paul died. It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way…

— Paul Kalanithi

“This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by…

— Vicki Pettersson

“In a single week I had lost the two most important men in my life. Yet the word “lost” was misleading. Neither had died…

— Claire Holden Rothman

“As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on,…

— Edward Kennedy

“In the midst of the darkness of loss, I found light. Admittedly, in those first weeks, it might have been but a single small…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary…

— Leo Tolstoy

“This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death—examined it, wrestled with it, accepted it—as…

— Paul Kalanithi

“When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for…

— Josephine Hart

“It is a bittersweet joy, but real nonetheless—the way our lost loves are forever in our hearts and minds. They are, in fact, constant…

— Martha Whitmore Hickman

“That Paul and I formed part of the deep meaning of each other’s lives is one of the greatest blessings that has ever come…

— Paul Kalanithi