Kevin Costner Quotes

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

My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

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

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

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.

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

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

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!

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

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on.