Rowing Without Oars Quotes

“Grief often feels lonely. Part of the work of grieving has to be done by oneself. Nobody can be of any help with the innermost sorrow. One must bear it on one's own.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“One must accept that death is a part of life, even the most terrible death. And do we not live a whole life every day, and does it then make any great difference if we live a few days more or less? -Anita Goldman”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“To watch powerlessly while a loved one slowly gets weaker is awful. To grieve and at the same time to make the most of each day. Of the time one still has. One prepares oneself consciously and unconsciously for the loss one knows will come. In despair one can be anything but sympathetic and tolerant.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“Moments of total closeness and total friendship belong to eternity. It is a glimpse of eternity at any rate.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“Sometimes when terribly hard things happen to you, you can arrive at a turning-point in life, although you may not see it as such. And people whom you may not have counted on in the past can be the ones to step forward and give new love and help. It can mean unexpected intimacy. That can sometimes be a turning-point, a new opportunity, in the midst of all the difficulties. All these people who have understood, and who want to be close, perhaps they are the most important people. The ones who dare to come close, and share both pain and pleasure.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“To experience something for the last time can be more intense than it was the first.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“To be satisfied with what I have. Not to postpone things. That life is fragile.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“To see something for the last time can be as intense as seeing it for the first time”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“What is death?’ ‘I imagine it as being taken out of time, bodily time, and the physical dimension. And whatever we were, our personality or what we sometimes call the soul, goes to God and we leave our body here. It returns to the earth. It belongs to the earth. But it also gives rise to new life.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“All these people who have understood, and who want to be close, perhaps they are the most important people. The ones who dare to come close, and share both pain and pleasure.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“The word for patience in Arabic is ‘cactus’. They have the same meaning -‘to endure thirst’.”
― Ulla-Carin Lindquist, Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying