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Top 25 Rosamund Lupton Quotes (2025 Update)

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”

1. “Grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “It’s not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it’s the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It’s we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don’t manage it.”

2. “It’s not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it’s the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It’s we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don’t manage it.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I’ve since found out it’s common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you.”

3. “For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I’ve since found out it’s common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”

4. “But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.”

5. “Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “A selfish person can still love someone else, can’t they? Even when they’ve hurt them and let them down.”

6. “A selfish person can still love someone else, can’t they? Even when they’ve hurt them and let them down.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”

7. “I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “For years I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn’t want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult.”

8. “For years I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn’t want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “My job isn’t to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.”

9. “My job isn’t to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children’s lives.”

10. “But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children’s lives.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.”

11. “Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “She pans life for gold and finds it daily.”

12. “She pans life for gold and finds it daily.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Bubonic plague is ‘natural,’ I snapped back. Doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”

13. “Bubonic plague is ‘natural,’ I snapped back. Doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.”

14. “And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.”

15. “Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Ours was a relationship of small talk. We’d never stayed awake long into the night hoping to find in that nocturnal physical conversation a connection of minds. We hadn’t stared into each others eyes because if eyes are the window to the soul it would be a little rude and embarrassing to look in. We’d created a ring-road relationship, circumventing raw emotions and complex feelings, so that our central selves were strangers.”

16. “Ours was a relationship of small talk. We’d never stayed awake long into the night hoping to find in that nocturnal physical conversation a connection of minds. We hadn’t stared into each others eyes because if eyes are the window to the soul it would be a little rude and embarrassing to look in. We’d created a ring-road relationship, circumventing raw emotions and complex feelings, so that our central selves were strangers.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Our mind is who we are; it’s where we feel and think and believe. It’s where we have love and faith and hate and passion.”

17. “Our mind is who we are; it’s where we feel and think and believe. It’s where we have love and faith and hate and passion.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “I reminded you I studied literature, didn’t I? I’ve had an endless supply of quotations at my disposal, but they had always highlighted the inadequacy of my life rather than providing an uplifting literary score to it.”

18. “I reminded you I studied literature, didn’t I? I’ve had an endless supply of quotations at my disposal, but they had always highlighted the inadequacy of my life rather than providing an uplifting literary score to it.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “I’m only just discovering that how someone behaves in everyday life gives no clue how they’ll be when it counts.”

19. “I’m only just discovering that how someone behaves in everyday life gives no clue how they’ll be when it counts.”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn’t return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”

20. “When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn’t return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Already you were going into the past. People think it’s reassuring to say “life carries on”; don’t they understand that it’s the fact your life carries on, while the person you love’s does not, that is one of the acute anguishes of grief?”

21. “Already you were going into the past. People think it’s reassuring to say “life carries on”; don’t they understand that it’s the fact your life carries on, while the person you love’s does not, that is one of the acute anguishes of grief?”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “Was the feeling that all is right with the world, my world, because your were its foundations, formed in childhood and with me grown into adulthod – was that to replaced by nothing? The ghastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody’s sister now.”

22. “Was the feeling that all is right with the world, my world, because your were its foundations, formed in childhood and with me grown into adulthod – was that to replaced by nothing? The ghastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody’s sister now.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “It makes the other one more precious and also not enough. We have to try to fill not only our own boots but other people’s too – yours, Leo’s, Dad’s. We have to expand at the moment we feel the most shrunk.”

23. “It makes the other one more precious and also not enough. We have to try to fill not only our own boots but other people’s too – yours, Leo’s, Dad’s. We have to expand at the moment we feel the most shrunk.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton Quote: “However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”

24. “However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”

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Rosamund Lupton Quote: “I felt caged with loneliness.”

25. “I felt caged with loneliness.”

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