“The hardest stories we tell are always about ourselves. How do you explain that you have been missing your mother for 20 years? I don't know how to explain that to you. I wasn't even sure I wanted to film that, because I don't know how I felt about it. I didn't want to put her through it, and I frankly wasn't ready. Because since I was 16, I just had created my own life for myself, you know? I left when I was 12. I'm 32. And I have gotten to know my mother more through editing her and looking and watching and editing her footage, you know.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 127 of 132
“Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.”
“Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.”
“When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.”
“It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.”
“After love a formal feeling comes.”
“When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.”
“The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.”
“I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.”
“Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.”
“Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.”
“The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.”
“I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.”
“[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.”
“When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.”
“Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.”
“He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.”
“Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?”
“Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.”
“This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.”