Anderson Cooper Quotes

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything - from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the parent of a victim, I put myself in their position and imagine what would it be like if that happened to me.

I grieve for every death.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

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

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

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

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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

I must write you a line of deepest sympathy. I know how you must be suffering about Constance. We cannot disguise from ourselves that our old Constance has gone forever. I feel, whatever it may be in the future, for the moment she has passed out of the lives of her family. She has become an impersonal being, and no one will feel this so much as you.

I don't cheer when people lose their lives.

I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

I am deeply pained after learning about the death of Pravin Chougule.

It's tough to find the words to say to someone who has lost everything. I can't imagine how it feels.

Growing up in Westboro, there was a culture of celebrating death and tragedy... a very calloused way of seeing other people's pain. After I left, it took me a while to be able to really empathize with what it must have been like for the loved ones of people whose funerals we protested.