George Clooney Quotes

I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

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

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

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

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Death is a fearful thing.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

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

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

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

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

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

Me, I'm not a guy who's dealt with a lot of death in my life, so when it hits you, it hits hard, you question different things.

A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year.