Paul McCartney Quotes

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Paul Lisicky, in his new memoir, 'The Narrow Door,' describes losing his old friend, the novelist Denise Gess, and his husband, the acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty, within a year of each other: Gess to cancer, at the age of 57, and Doty to another man.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

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

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.

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.

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

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

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.