Dierks Bentley Quotes

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.