Annie Lennox Quotes

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you haven't, but that's part of life.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

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

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.