Writers On Loss Grief Quotes

#1. If I ever go bald, I'll kill myself.

Slash

#2. There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second.

Sharon Kay Penman

#3. For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.

Steve Blank

#4. The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!"
Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?"
"Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!

Scott Westerfeld

#5. If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

Joe Lieberman

#6. I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some ways it's important to be the vessels for grief for all that's being lost on our planet. But we also need to be forward thinking.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#7. Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

Ru Freeman

#8. Mr. Denham cursed himself very sharply for having exchanged the freedom of the street for this sophisticated drawing-room,

Virginia Woolf

#9. The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.

Sigourney Weaver

#11. I did quite a bit of running before, but it's getting really cold so I joined a gym. I do a bit of swimming and I'm starting to do yoga again.

Lara Stone

#12. My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes.

Vincent Brooks

#13. Every age has its darkness.

Liz Braswell

#14. The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Martin Luther

#15. I'm easy to please and hard to satisfy.

Clint Hurdle

#16. I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

John Sladek

#17. This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers