Germaine de Staël Quotes

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

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.

The problem with death is absence

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

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

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.

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

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.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.