Jermaine Jackson Quotes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.

Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven.

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

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

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Sire, in this new outrage I see only the last trait of resemblance between your Majesty and the God who will be your reward

I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then - my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you - because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.

I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.

I've never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don't really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.

My mother and father both died at 64.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

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 heard that my father was a really funny man in company, but I never got to see that side of him. I was just 17 when he died, and he didn't know that I was funny.

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

The only time I actually got mad at God is when my dad completely changed and was my closest friend, and then he was taken from me too soon.

There's a Bible verse that says if you believe, you will be in the presence of the Lord in the blink of an eye. And I know Dale was a believer, and that means that he saw his son and his friend going to win the Daytona 500, and he was in heaven all within the blink of an eye.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.