Karl Shapiro Quotes

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

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.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

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 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.

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

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.