Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

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

Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

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.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

It was the saddest day of my life.

The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.

When we called each other and got the call that Jimmy had died, literally, it all ended right there. Everything we've ever known as human beings, everything we've ever known as a band, changes at that moment, and you can't think clearly.

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

My best girl is dead.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.