Lil Rel Howery Quotes

My closet CD that I don't admit that I really listen to is Celine Dion. My husband's sister passed away in a car accident, and she was a huge Celine Dion fan. 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' was her favorite song, so that's kind of my guilty pleasure.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.

I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.

I think Grandad's demise brought our family closer. He has been such a great personality and inspiration to us.

I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.

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.

In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don't know if that means I'm mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that conversation, different images of my parents appear to me.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.

My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I had one young man tell me he wished I was his mom. Another young woman told me that every time she watched 'The Office,' I reminded her of her mother, who had just passed away a year ago, and that every time she saw me she felt as if she had a piece of her mom still with her.

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.

I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.