39 Quotes by David Kessler

How many people say, 'I'm going to smoke this one and 780,000 more?'

All they have to say on TV is there's a gas shortage and prices go up. I'm upset.

Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn’t mean needing someone to try to lessen it or reframe it for them. The need is for someone to be fully present to the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.

You don’t have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.

While death may look like a loss to the living, the last hours of a dying person may very well be filled with fullness rather than emptiness.

Mother Teresa, and she once told me that “death is part of the achievement of life.

When someone dies, the relationship doesn’t die with them.