Kathy Lette Quotes

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

Kathy Lette

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• Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief
  • Where
  • Fresh

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Grief

• The poet walked alone in a cold late rain,And thought his grief was like the crying of sea-birds;For his lover was dead, he never would love again.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Alone
  • Cold
  • Sea

• Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Nature
  • Grief

• Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Giving

• I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

  

  Kesha
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Life
  • Grief

• Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Grief

• People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • People
  • Depression
  • Grief

• Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Depression
  • Grief

• What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief and incredible rage. And that verdict not only let George Zimmerman go home to his family, but it sent a message to black people everywhere that our lives did not matter.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• Heaven will smile on us again.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Heaven
  • Smile

• I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Father
  • Fate

• The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.

  

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.

  

  Mindy McCready
  • Wanted
  • Roger

• My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

  

  Kathy Lette
  • Grief
  • Price
  • Sisters