William Wordsworth Quotes

Widow. The word consumes itself.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

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

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.