Eugene Kennedy Quotes

Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

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

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.

I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the fact that death is coming nearer and nearer and you have to be prepared for it.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.