Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Rosie Thomas

Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

I can only strive for what is important

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – 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 will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

I need them and they need me to need them

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

Things don't matter, people do

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

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.