Clive Barker Quotes

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

Despair is part of love.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

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.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

There is no love without suffering.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

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.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

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

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