„You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.“

„If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.“

—  Francesca Lia Block, libro Echo

Origine: Echo

„You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular…. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.“

—  Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

Interview in Writers at Work (1963)
1960s

„I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.“

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga

Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 162)

„Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.“

—  Cecelia Ahern Irish novelist 1981

Origine: P.S. I Love You

„[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)“

—  Anne Lamott Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

Origine: Crooked Little Heart

„I grieve for you
You leave me
So hard to move on
Still loving what's gone
They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on…“

—  Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

I Grieve
Song lyrics, City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture (1998)

„Experiment more and don't let people box you in. There is nothing you can't put on your canvas if it is part of your life.“

—  Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

Contesto: I'm less unsure about taking political risks or social risks. When I became an activist, people were like, "Really?" But they eventually accepted that. Then I started to be interested in commerce and the machinery of what got people out of poverty and into prosperity. And then a few people said, "You can't really go there, can you?"
I said, "But if you are an artist, you must go there." You and I have had the conversation over the years: What can the artist do? What is the artist not allowed to do, and are there boundaries? Now, I would say to my younger self: "Experiment more and don't let people box you in. There is nothing you can't put on your canvas if it is part of your life."

„Love always triumphs over what we call death. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.“

—  Paulo Coelho, libro Aleph

Aleph (2011)

„You are James Herondale, said Uncle Jem. As you always were. Part your mother, part your father, part yourself. I would not change any part of you if I could.“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

Origine: Nothing but Shadows

„It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do.“

—  George Raymond Richard Martin American writer, screenwriter and television producer 1948

infinity plus interview (2001)
Contesto: Historical processes have never much interested me, but history is full of stories, full of triumph and tragedy and battles won and lost. It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do. Though some may have had crowns on their heads or blood on their hands, in the end they were not so different from you and me, and therein lies their fascination. I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.

„nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, libro Shantaram

Origine: Shantaram

„Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.“

—  Joanne Greenberg, libro I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Origine: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

„No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.“

—  Jodi Picoult, libro Sing You Home

Origine: Sing You Home

„You can grieve when someone dies. But when someone is near death, and there is the chance that you might prevent it if you make the right decision, anxiety takes over.“

—  Ross Thomas 1926-1995 American writer 1926 - 1995

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

„Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.“

—  Simone Weil French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909 - 1943

Origine: Chance (1947), p. 277

„You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.“

—  Stephen Chbosky American writer 1970

„You don’t want to be
down in the trenches,
remembering with me,
where you will not mark my leaving,
and you will not hear my parting song.
Nor is there cause for grieving.
Nor is there cause for carrying on.“

—  Joanna Newsom American musician 1982

Anecdotes
Contesto: In the folds and the branches,
somewhere, out there,
I was only just born into open air.
Now hush, little babe.
You don’t want to be
down in the trenches,
remembering with me,
where you will not mark my leaving,
and you will not hear my parting song.
Nor is there cause for grieving.
Nor is there cause for carrying on.

„You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, libro Le pagine della nostra vita

Origine: The Notebook

„Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.“

—  Mark Twain, libro Following the Equator

Origine: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. LXII