Humphrey Bogart Quotes

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.

Funerals...are for the living.

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes.

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

I done been to so many funerals.

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

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

My best girl is dead.

Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.