Bradley Denton Quotes

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

The toughest challenges I've faced are the deaths of my mother and Stephen Gately.

My best girl is dead.

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

When you're young, the loss that you experience when you break up with somebody, that's the loss of a relationship. And the older you get, you actually lose people to death and you lose those relationships, too.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

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.

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 ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.