Quotes by Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell

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

Crazy

Grief

Noble

Grief is what tells you who you are alone.

Grief

Who You Are

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn’t survive.

Feels

Loss

Violation

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Different

Loss

Recovery

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

And Love

Confused

Sacrifice

If writers possess a common temperament, it’s that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

Shy

Spotlight

Suffering

It’s and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

Died

Stories

It’s taken years for me to understand that dying doesn’t end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another’s lives until not death, but distance, does us part– time and space and heart’s weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.

Distance

Heart

Taken

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

Amputation

Endure

Heart

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

Assuming

Feeling Sad

Sadness

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Amputation

And Love

Assuming

Battle

Bittersweet

Breathing

Children

Choices

Commonplace

Confused

Courses

Crash

Crazy

Daughter

Died

Different

Distance

Dog

Ends

Endure

Fantasy

Fear

Feeling Sad

Feels

Flaws

Grace

Grief

Heart

Hell

Honesty

Honor

Ideas

Irreplaceable

Leaving

Loss

Lovely

Loyalty

Lying

Memories

Missing Someone

Mistake

Mother

Needs

Night

Nightmare

Noble

One Day

Pain

Reading

Real

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Quotes by Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell

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

Grief is what tells you who you are alone.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn’t survive.

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

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

If writers possess a common temperament, it’s that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

It’s and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

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

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