Drs Quote by Jane Austen

“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead”

— Jane Austen

“I buried my grief for my son, not my memories, but my grief.”

— Deborah Smith

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

— Harold Brodkey

“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

“He died in his sleep one night. An aneurysm, the doctors said. I found him, cold, smiling. Maybe he’d been dreaming of Mother when…

— Jim Butcher

“She looked at him and he read in her eyes a disappointment that he should have stooped to the dead relative excuse. Yet he…

— Helen Simonson

“When I saw him three months later, he was still despondent. “I feel as if a part of my body is missing. I feel…

— Atul Gawande

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I…

— Mark Twain

“According to his upbringing, there were certain subjects that it was ill-mannered to raise in conversation with a new acquaintance. With the likes of…

— Jonathan L. Howard

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

— Glenn Meade

“His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered…

— Graham Swift

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

— Menander