Death Quote by Gail Caldwell

“The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses…

— Gail Caldwell

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.

— Gail Caldwell

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

— Gail Caldwell

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

— Gail Caldwell

I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.

— Gail Caldwell

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.

— Gail Caldwell

You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved…

— Gail Caldwell

“From the first winter afternoon in the Harvard ball fields, "Oh no--I need you" had become an admission and a clarion call--the tenet of…

— Gail Caldwell

“Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part--time and space and the heart's…

— Gail Caldwell

“Everything about death is a cliché until you're in it.”

— Gail Caldwell

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

— Gail Caldwell

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast…

— Gail Caldwell