Kenneth Feinberg Quotes

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

’While there is life, there’s hope,’ he cried; ‘Then why such haste?’ so groaned and died.

A diary is a way of hedging one’s bets against death.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved -still warm -too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?