Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

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

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

And my little sister died when she was 16.

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.