Ryan Adams Quotes

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Life is a process of one goneness after another.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Death is an absolute marvel.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Death is an art, you know.