John Prine Quotes

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

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

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.

I buried my dad the day I started Craig David's tour. Buried him, got on this tour bus in Stratford, and hit the road. Mixed emotions.

I lost three cousins and a best friend, and they all came at the wrong time. Everyone told me to be strong and that they were in a better place. But I didn't want to hear that. They were gone and I will never see them again.

I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.