Carole Radziwill Quotes

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

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

Widow. The word consumes itself.

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.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

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

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.

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

Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house and not have to be outside and deal with people. But I also found a community online that I was able to escape the feeling I was having of losing a best friend.

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

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

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

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.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

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

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.