Leonard Nimoy Quotes

It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that.

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

When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

death had just shred a tear

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.

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.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

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

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

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

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

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

How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.

I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.

My wife was an amazing, amazing person. Sophia's Heart is an organization that I founded in honor of my wife when she passed away. When she passed away it was a complete shock, and it was disappointment, anger. I felt all those emotions.

My best girl is dead.