Top 90 Kelly Rimmer Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Sometimes, darkness would settle over me and I would pace the hallway with her in my arms, thinking things that were too dark to even acknowledge.”

— Kelly Rimmer

52. “The human spirit is a miraculous thing. It is the strongest part of us – crushed under pressure, but rarely broken. Trapped within our weak and fallible bodies, but never contained.”

— Kelly Rimmer

53. “I think you’ve lived a big life, and you’ve seen the four corners of the world and you’ve known fascinating people and achieved a lot. Maybe to you this relationship is just another part of all that, but to me, this has been a mind-blowing, soul-changing revelation. And to have you take that away from me because you could.”

— Kelly Rimmer

54. “There’s an odd sensation within my chest- the splintering and shattering of something precious that had been straining under pressure for years.”

— Kelly Rimmer

55. “Addiction is, in that way, just like love – in the early moments, you don’t see the potential for it to bring you pain – it’s just something you slide into between laughs and smiles and moments of bliss. It’s something that feels like a shield, until you realize it’s actually a warhead, and it’s pointed right at you.”

— Kelly Rimmer

56. “It was a grief-drenched day, the kind of day where the hours drag and dissolve into nothing all at once; the kind of day when you wake the next morning and think it was just a bad dream, until the grit in your eyes and the heaviness in your chest remind you otherwise.”

— Kelly Rimmer

57. “It is a strange thing to know yourself, and to realise at the same time that you are merely the product of the nest within which you are raised – and that a different nest might easily have produced a different you.”

— Kelly Rimmer

58. “Hopelessness was a passive emotion, but its natural successor drove action, and that action rarely resulted in anything positive.”

— Kelly Rimmer

59. “But as I read about World War II, I was inspired by so many stories of love and survival, even in the face of unimaginable oppression and cruelty. Tomasz’s, Alina’s and Saul’s story became clear in my mind as I marveled at the way that not even the worst of humanity is powerful enough to stamp out grace or hope or love.”

— Kelly Rimmer

60. “I resolved then and there to become a woman and a mother who hugged. There was something so generous about the gesture.”

— Kelly Rimmer

61. “Isn’t an adult just a child, shaped by experience? How does a person learn not to hate, when that hate has been imprinted upon them from such a young age?”

— Kelly Rimmer

62. “I want to pretend this is the middle of our life together. I want to pretend we’ve had decades and we have decades left. I want to pretend that we know everything about each other but we haven’t run out of things to talk about, because we just like to hear each other speak.”

— Kelly Rimmer

63. “The hatred had become almost self-generating now, infecting every corner of our society. It had grown so big and so dark, it threatened to suffocate us.”

— Kelly Rimmer

64. “You love like that only once in a lifetime – you can love from a place of innocence only once. It always leads to the deepest hurt, and after that, you’re changed and hardened by it.”

— Kelly Rimmer

65. “He told me that he was in this for life, baby or no baby. And that was that.”

— Kelly Rimmer

66. “Why do I rail only against the things that help me, and never against my habit towards self-destruction?”

— Kelly Rimmer

67. “When the time is right, I’ll be honest about who I am – my name and my heritage, and you’ll see what I knew all along. When a man is a patient on an operating table, and there’s only one person in the room with the skills to save his life, that patient will instantly forget that he used to be a bigot.”

— Kelly Rimmer

68. “You must believe that if God allowed you to survive this far – there is a purpose to it. You must believe that there is work left to do on this Earth before you are released to peace. Hold tight to what you have left, Saul Weiss. And if all you have left is your faith, then you cling to it with every shred of strength you have left – do you hear me?”

— Kelly Rimmer

69. “Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz.”

— Kelly Rimmer

70. “We have to take joy where we find it, even on the worst days.”

— Kelly Rimmer

71. “All I know is that I made a decision to follow David back here to the country because I believed that was what we needed – what he needed – and I didn’t spare a single thought to what I actually wanted for myself.”

— Kelly Rimmer

72. “From the fear had grown courage, and from the courage had grown confidence, and now the stint at sea was a part of the fabric of my character.”

— Kelly Rimmer

73. “Hitler wants land and power, and it is much easier to convince an army to die for you when you have an enemy to fight,” Father said, quite gently. “And the Jews make for an easy enemy, because people will always hate what is different.”

— Kelly Rimmer

74. “I could snap myself out of the darkest moments only by reminding myself that things would get better.”

— Kelly Rimmer

75. “I live in the big house we’ve owned since David was a boy. I renovate when the whim takes me, and it takes me often, and the renovations are expensive. I get my hair done every fortnight, and I buy premium brands and I never, ever have to worry about how to pay the bills. Maybe I gave up some things to stay with Wyatt, and maybe even once he was an adult, I did it for David. I just don’t kid myself any more that there isn’t something in this life for me too.”

— Kelly Rimmer

76. “For all of his flaws, I could not deny the lifetime of love and devotion he’d given to me.”

— Kelly Rimmer

77. “That’s the problem with fairy-tale love – and there’s your wicked witch. True love is just a synonym for desperate dependency.”

— Kelly Rimmer

78. “One of the remarkable things about my wife is that she never shies away from her past, no matter how ugly it is. She has this theory that you only kill the demons by bringing them to light.”

— Kelly Rimmer

79. “Sometimes I also kind of hate him, but mostly, I love him. That’s marriage sometimes. That’s just the way it is; the years can’t all be kind, because life isn’t always.”

— Kelly Rimmer

80. “I finally discovered that the love I have for my children is the most powerful thing on earth. It’s fierce and determined and an absolute force to be reckoned with. I would do anything for them. On a good day I know that I am far from a perfect mother, but I am all they have, and all I can do is to make sure that I expend every breath trying to do my best.”

— Kelly Rimmer

81. “She’s tattooed herself onto my spirit.”

— Kelly Rimmer

82. “Life isn’t fair,’ she whispered. ‘But that doesn’t mean it has to be cruel.”

— Kelly Rimmer

83. “She was a woman on her way towards peace.”

— Kelly Rimmer

84. “Hundreds of these decrees were passed, one by one. This is how polite society gives way to chaos. The collapse that comes at the end of the process is a consequence of the slow erosion over time.”

— Kelly Rimmer

85. “Our life had become a fragile chaos;.”

— Kelly Rimmer

86. “I want answers and it should never have.”

— Kelly Rimmer

87. “As long as you need us,’ Ed said. ‘There’s nowhere else in the world we need to be.”

— Kelly Rimmer

88. “Life is a journey. You don’t have to travel, but you always have to be going somewhere or you stagnate.”

— Kelly Rimmer

89. “I love being a Mum, but it’s still the most terrifying aspect of my life.”

— Kelly Rimmer

90. “Whatever is ahead of you – please let it be ahead of us.”

— Kelly Rimmer

91. “I have no idea what happens after you go, but it will be better because I knew you.”

— Kelly Rimmer