Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Your life is built on when love dies.

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave

Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?