Berevement Quotes & Sayings

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war. — Sebastian Junger

You are naked! Fear makes you naked. — Deyth Banger

One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened. — Damon Galgut

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day? — Lois Lowry

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment. — Alan Shearer

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed. — Charles Caleb Colton

Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit. — Rick Warren

Nothing's going to happen between us until you're ready for it to happen."

She stared at him, stil clutching her stick in a death grip, then finally nodded and silently walked to her car. She let Toby in the backseat, then opened the passenger door and slid the tip of her stick on the floor to lean it against the console.

"Jess," Ian said quietly.

She turned, still not saying anything.

"Just so long as you know that it is going to happen. — Janet Chapman

Jordan couldn't keep the smile off her face. Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I'd say he's a keeper. — Julie James

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. — Yves Saint-Laurent

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it. — Robin Hobb

You've been a thief of nuts. No wonder you turned into one." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect. — Aristotle.

Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable. — Robert H. Jackson

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious. — Gary Speed