Lynn Johnston Quotes

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

My mother, she passed away when I was 28 years old. She fought cancer for more than 10 years. She had breast cancer, and I miss her.

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.