William Gibson Quotes

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

There is not a day that goes by when I do not think of my son, and the man he would have grown up to be.

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

So many people that I've wanted to work with have died. I was so crazy in love with Amy Winehouse. When she died, I felt like I lost my sister all over again. I couldn't stop crying for weeks and weeks! It was horrible! She was so wonderful and so talented.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.