Markus Zusak Quotes

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Do not weep for me.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.