25 Quotes by Neena Verma

We are generally not programmed to imagine death, to handle death, to absorb grief, at least not in the immediacy of things, definitely not when the ‘thing’ has happened to another person.

The morning’s splendour is conceived in the dark womb of night. A truth … we all know and believe. Yet a truth, that is most difficult to live and endure when one is in that dark womb. Alive and breathing … but inert, vulnerable, and ‘in waiting’. Witnessing but not conscious, wakeful but not awake. (Page 2)

When one has an urge to say something but wouldn't quite know 'what' & 'how' .. it is better to let it remain unsaid.

Cold, still and mercilessDeath comes visiting With absolute finality(Page 24)

Any one can be a leader is often a passing myth, not always a lasting truth.

There are words like ‘orphan’, ‘widow’ and ‘widower’ in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of ‘ultimate bereavement’! (Page 50)

The dawn broke, but the Sun did not rise that morning. It was a morning of ‘mourning’. (Page 24)