Arthur Ashe Quotes

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

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

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Do not weep for me.

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.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

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

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

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.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

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

When anyone dies, it's sad.

I am tired of losing people.

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Grief is exhausting.