37 Quotes by Rosie Thomas

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Things don't matter, people do

I need them and they need me to need them

I can only strive for what is important

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.