Clint Dempsey Quotes

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.

I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.

When you lose someone you love, you don't think the same way. And that's why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

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 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.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.