Carl Paladino Quotes

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

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

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

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.

Some people can accept the changes in life in a mature way but for most others, it is never easy.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

In life, there's a lot that I'm afraid of. Death is always scary. My sister passed away. I'm not scared to die, so much as I was scared to not have her in my life, and it took a long time for me to reconcile that. There are fears everyday, and things that I'm afraid of. I fear everything, but I keep going.